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A Case of the Human Condition: My Daughter the Trash Heap

My daughter is beautiful. But I wonder if she wants to be. If she liked being beautiful, why did she dress up as a heap of trash for Halloween when she was 11? A “Doctor Who” space alien at 28?

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Twenty-two Years Later, A Tiananmen Survivor Finally Tells All

Twenty-two years after the crack-down at Tiananmen Square, a leader of the protests there finally tells her story. Why did it take so long?

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A Case of the Human Condition: Respect for Our Undeserving Elders

“Move,” said my 6-year-old son Peter to his grandmother. “I want to get by.” My mother looked up from her book and gave my son a hard look.

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The Writing Room: And My (Serious) Case of the Human Condition

Driving home the other day from just one of countless visits to my mom at the hospital, I had to ask myself , why aren’t I writing about her?

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A Case of the Human Condition: Reading, Writing — And Yucky

Little Max is off to kindergarten for his first taste of the real world. What will he learn? “Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg . . .”

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