My Father, His Gun, and Me
It wasn’t her dad's firearm that terrified the author when she was growing up. It was the realization that a weapon could never protect her from the palpable violence.
Father’s Day
The “Monster” My Dad Created
The writer’s father spent years on a project that helped create the internet. So why does he recoil at the thought of his daughter’s warm embrace of its innumerable virtues?
My Neocon Father Accidentally Raised a Feminist
The writer's Rush Limbaugh-loving dad made her promise never to become a "feminazi." Even as he raised her to be smart, outspoken, independent—and to feel entitled to equal rights.
Even My Dad Thinks I Have Daddy Issues
For this writer, coming to terms with her shame meant disappointing her father. And realizing it was worth it.
I Broke Up With My Father
After years of dealing with her father’s fair-weather parenting, the writer did the hardest thing a daughter can do.