How to spot a Canadian
Canadians are the only nationality who, en masse, wear folk music festival T-shirts
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How one mother coped when her daughter left for school
View ArticleAnimation Wrap-Up
All four of Fox’s animated sitcoms have ended their 2007-8 seasons, and once again, surprisingly, American Dad was the best of the four. I did not like it when it started, and even now it’s hardly on a...
View ArticleIn Which I Create a Grand Unified Theory In About Five Minutes
Todd asks: I’d be interested in reading about why comedies that try to balance work and home life often write out the home life. I’m thinking, in particular, of Barney Miller and Spin City, but I’m...
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The saddest of Madonna portraits
In the late 1800s, Edward Bok, the reform-minded editor of Ladies’ Home Journal, launched a crusade against, of all things, the parlour—that pretentious little room, as he saw it, reserved by the...
View ArticleParental estrangement on the rise: expert
There are no official counts of parents whose adult children have cut them off, but evidence suggests it’s on the rise, the New York Times reports. Olympic gold medal skier Lindsey Vonn reportedly...
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Daddy knows best
Courtesy City TV On the day that Ronan was born, Paul and Rob, who have been married for 11 years, were both in the delivery room. “It was like a live one-hour National Geographic show,” Paul says of...
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There’s a new Brian Mulroney
Photograph by Mila Mulroney As a successful television host, Ben Mulroney has carved out a niche well outside the political world. But the eldest—by one minute—of his two sons born at Toronto’s Mount...
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Rethinking motherhood: the third act
DALE BERMAN/ CORBIS OUTLINE/ BRIAN D. JOHNSON When my first book, The Mother Zone, came out in 1992, parenting was still a non-subject. Yes, I know, this is hard to believe, now that we are awash in...
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Samcam comes to Downing
Steve Back/Rex Features/CP, Lefteris Pitarakis/AP Samantha Cameron might just be the perfect political wife. Serene, stylish, shrewd and hard-working, during the Conservative campaign last spring she...
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The woman in a war zone
Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty Images As rebels stormed Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s lavish Tripoli compound in August, one foreign correspondent, Alex Crawford of Sky News, was there to cover the action. At...
View ArticleLeave home—or we’ll sue
Shooing adult kids out of the family nest can be stressful for parents. One Venetian couple is so frustrated by their freeloading 41-year-old son that they’ve taken the unusual step of siccing a lawyer...
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You can’t mandate marriage, even if it’s good for society
Chris Wattie/CP Marriage may not matter as much as it once did to young couples. But it matters a lot to society at large. Married couples are a foundation of the economy. They earn, save and spend...
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REVIEW: Fiction Ruined My Family
This memoir about growing up in a family of eccentrics opens with the author’s father, the magazine writer Stephen Darst, cashing in his job and the family home and moving his wife and four young...
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Why it’s not your fault you can’t stand your brother
“I had an older brother,” writes Manhattan-based psychotherapist Jeanne Safer, “but he was never a brother to me.” That admission, and her curiously detached response to his death, may seem an...
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‘How To Save Your Daughter’s Life’: lock her up
David Young-Wolff/Getty Images; Photo Illustration by Taylor Shute Pat Brown knows every grisly crime imaginable. She’s television’s go-to criminal profiler and the CEO of the Sexual Homicide Exchange,...
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