Open Salon

  • Home
  • Blogs
  • Topics
  • Help
  • Sign in
 
  • Editor's Pick
  • Top Rated
  • Most Viewed
  • Most Commented
  • Most Recent
  • animals
  • belief/religion
  • books
  • business
  • comedy
  • design
  • economy
  • environment
  • family
  • fashion
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • food/drink
  • for sale
  • gay/lesbian
  • gossip
  • health
  • movies
  • music
  • news
  • open call
  • photography
  • poetry
  • politics
  • science
  • sports
  • technology
  • television
  • travel
  • video
Posted by
    • Editor's Pick
    • 23 Ratings
    • 3217 Views
    • 20 Comments
    User picture.

    When Mom "Likes" Too Much

    MARCH 8, 2012 9:39AM

    By Liane Carter


    Topics: comedy, humor, saturday night live, farmville, sons

    • Editor's Pick
    • 61 Ratings
    • 2098 Views
    • 65 Comments
    User picture.

    Down Under the Rainbow

    FEBRUARY 10, 2012 8:28AM

    By Bellwether Vance


    Topics: australia, sailing, sons, mothers, family

    • Editor's Pick
    • 13 Ratings
    • 2515 Views
    • 9 Comments
    User picture.

    If You Give an ADHD Kid a Horse, Will He Still Need Meds?

    NOVEMBER 18, 2011 9:52AM

    By divorcedpauline


    Topics: adhd, stimulants, equine therapy, therapeutic boarding school, teenagers, mothers, sons

    • Editor's Pick
    • 16 Ratings
    • 3212 Views
    • 25 Comments
    User picture.

    Did My Son Inherit My Eating Disorder?

    NOVEMBER 9, 2011 9:46AM

    By divorcedpauline


    Topics: troubled teen, mothers, sons, teenager, custody, divorce, boarding school, diet, eating disorder

    • Editor's Pick
    • 23 Ratings
    • 72625 Views
    • 22 Comments
    User picture.

    My Son Goes to Boarding School, and, No, I Don't Mean Exeter

    NOVEMBER 2, 2011 10:07AM

    By divorcedpauline


    Topics: divorce, adolescence, sons, moms, troubled teen, boarding school

    • Editor's Pick
    • 53 Ratings
    • 2595 Views
    • 63 Comments
    User picture.

    What a Quarter Will Buy

    SEPTEMBER 23, 2011 8:45AM

    By Bellwether Vance


    Topics: i think of this whenever i eat coconut, daughters, sons, fathers, my parents' secret history, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 54 Ratings
    • 3415 Views
    • 58 Comments
    User picture.

    A Necklace of Birds

    JUNE 22, 2011 9:45AM

    By Bellwether Vance


    Topics: home, lotus eaters, the odyssey, adventure, sailing, family, mothers, sons

    • Editor's Pick
    • 51 Ratings
    • 1865 Views
    • 67 Comments
    User picture.

    Sense of the father

    FEBRUARY 16, 2011 10:53AM

    By Matt Paust


    Topics: fathers, sons, bigotry, liberalism, attention deficit disorder, dysfunction, reworked old post

    • Editor's Pick
    • 40 Ratings
    • 1347 Views
    • 100 Comments
    User picture.

    Turning On The Lights This Halloween

    OCTOBER 20, 2010 12:20PM

    By Chuck A. Stetson


    Topics: open call, family, sons, halloween, understanding

    • Editor's Pick
    • 74 Ratings
    • 2484 Views
    • 93 Comments
    User picture.

    Sex and Chicken Bones

    OCTOBER 13, 2010 9:02AM

    By Bellwether Vance


    Topics: sexuality, daughters, sons, mothers, friends, dogs, chicken bones, sex

    • Editor's Pick
    • 56 Ratings
    • 1592 Views
    • 61 Comments
    User picture.

    grimace

    AUGUST 30, 2010 1:53PM

    By Greg Correll


    Topics: forgiveness, mothers, sons, family, error, death, dying, compassion, getting past all that low road human error

    • Editor's Pick
    • 14 Ratings
    • 1706 Views
    • 19 Comments
    User picture.

    My mother, my beta-reader

    AUGUST 17, 2010 10:11PM

    By Max Lindenman


    Topics: sons, mothers, growing up, creativity, writing, parenting, childhood

    • Editor's Pick
    • 12 Ratings
    • 1906 Views
    • 16 Comments
    User picture.

    Between a Tween & a Sweet Place

    JULY 7, 2010 1:12AM

    By Katy B.


    Topics: parenting, teenagers, motherhood, divorce, sons

    • Editor's Pick
    • 46 Ratings
    • 1551 Views
    • 55 Comments
    User picture.

    Open Call: My Greatest Fear

    MARCH 8, 2010 8:41AM

    By AtHomePilgrim


    Topics: open call, facing fears, fathers, sons, husbands, wives, spousehood, parenthood

    • Editor's Pick
    • 43 Ratings
    • 2652 Views
    • 56 Comments
    User picture.

    Boat and Goat Farms

    FEBRUARY 24, 2010 6:36PM

    By Bellwether Vance


    Topics: canned gravy, church ladies, goats, pizza, sisters, girlfriends, sons, mothers, family

    • Editor's Pick
    • 8 Ratings
    • 1531 Views
    • 8 Comments
    User picture.

    So this is what we do when we get old(er)

    DECEMBER 14, 2009 9:18AM

    By cindy capitani


    Topics: saturday night, reminisce, facebook, daughters, sons, mothers, family, aunt, aging, texas, nieces, jonas brothers, bay city rollers, cindy capitani

    • Editor's Pick
    • 27 Ratings
    • 2482 Views
    • 29 Comments
    User picture.

    The Homecoming

    NOVEMBER 24, 2009 10:37PM

    By james poyner


    Topics: thanksgiving, homecomings, sons, fathers, forgiveness, family

    • Editor's Pick
    • 13 Ratings
    • 2575 Views
    • 17 Comments
    User picture.

    Photo: My First Beer, age 18 months

    DECEMBER 12, 2008 2:50PM

    By Corey Maxson Tucker


    Topics: beer, first beer, photo, photos, essay, personal essay, fathers, dads, sons, family

  • Open Salon
  • About
  • Contact
  • Help
  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Advertising

Salon.com

© 2013 Salon Media Group, Inc.