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How My Employer Put the “FML” in FMLA: Follow-Up

by Karen W. · April 8, 2015
Karen W. returns with more on what she's learned from her terrible, horrible, no-good very-bad experience trying to take FMLA.
Health

Not That Kind of Cancer

by Karen Corday · July 7, 2014
Karen Corday on her cancer diagnosis and its effect on her relationships.
Family

Odds and Omens: Superstition and IVF

by Teri Vlassopoulos · March 5, 2014
Teri Vlassopoulos on undergoing IVF, and the intersection between hope and magical thinking.
Animals

Are You My Mother?

by Mallory Ortberg · November 27, 2013
A deeper look into the inner lives of the characters in Are You My Mother?

More by Mallory Ortberg

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  • Lord Byron’s “Fare Thee Well,” or “I Just Think It’s Funny How”

  • Questions I Have Asked During The Only Episode Of Doctor Who I Have Ever Seen Until My Friend Said “Okay, Mallory, Why Don’t You Write Your Questions Down And Ask Them All After We’re Done Watching?”

  • Joan Didion and Anna Wintour: Best Friends Forever

Movies

On the Transformative Power of High School Musical

by Whitney Reynolds · September 4, 2013
What have we learned from High School Musical?

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