Editor's Letter
Deep Dives
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My Father's Silence, My Son's SilenceOn the inheritance you don't notice you've been handed until you watch your own child receive it.
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The Estate of Unsaid ThingsOn marrying a man and slowly realizing you've also married his father.
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Twelve Weeks in a Fathers' RoomWhat men say to other men when no women are listening, and the slow chemistry of putting down what was handed.
Point/Counterpoint
Editorials
The Raw
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Things My Dad Never Said To MeA list. Each item a one-line absence followed by what it left.
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What I Finally Told My Husband About His FatherAfter ten years of silence, the things a wife had observed that he could not see himself.
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The Eulogy I Haven't Written YetA draft, in advance, for a father who is still alive — and the ambivalence that any honest version requires.
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Inheriting His RageA son writes about the anger handed to him, and the precise practice of not handing it forward.