Life As We Know It A Collection of Personal Essays from Salon. com

Name: Life As We Know It A Collection of Personal Essays from Salon. com
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ISBN: 9780743476867

ISBN-10: 0743476867

ISBN-13: 9780743476867

Edition: 2003

Authors: Jennifer Foote Sweeney

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List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Publication date: 10/21/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.80" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Jennifer Foote Sweeney was a correspondent in the Los Angeles and London bureaus of Newsweek, a national writer for Newhouse News Service, and a reporter for metropolitan newspapers before becoming editor of Life at Salon.com. She lives in northern California with her husband and two daughters.



Contents


Foreword



Introduction



The Calculus Of Love


Pluses and Minuses


The Color of Love



Saucy Soccer Moms



Deranged Marriage



Foreskin and Several Years From Now



While You Are Gone



Crystal Is The Customary Gift -- I Got Dog Drool



Meatmarket.Com



If At First



Lost and Found



Multiplication


Hustling Hormones



Reproductive as a Rabbit, Abstinent as a Nun



We Believe Children Aren't The Future



I Miss Lesbian Reproductive Sex



Picking Mr. Right



My Seeds are Sprouting in Two Wombs



Post-Nuclear Family Life


The 'Rents


Love Me, Love My Guns



Hard-To-Swallow Soup For A Kid's Soul



On Being Ken



He Ain't Heavy



Dyr Mom: Wy R You So Laveabl?



The New Dad



The Reared


Everything Falls



My Brother's Keeper



Born To Pop Pills



Identity Crisis



A Hero's Retreat



World Without End


Loss


Faith In The Baby



Aspirin For A Severed Head



Isle Of Skye



A World Of Hurt



A Mother Without A Child



A Matter Of Life In Death



Remembrance


Papa Don't Preach



Curse Of The Hippie Parents



Supplicant



My Four Favorite Photos of my Mother



Being Frosty



My Father's Legacy



Sentimental Hogwash



Author Biographies


Acknowledgments