Guest Columnists

Alexandra Owens

• Valentine’s Day Guest Columnist Alexandra Owens: Our First Time Getting A Second Chance (2/13/2012)
• Guest columnist Alexandra Owens: “I’ve Killed My Child” (11/15/2012)
• Guest columnist Alexandra Owens: “I’ve Killed My Child” (part 2) (11/16/2012)

Al Villeta

• Father’s Day Guest Columnist Al Villeta: Fatherhood is a Calling (6/16/2011)

Annie Powell

• Mother’s Day Guest Columnist Annie Powell: Two For One, A Bargain At Any Price (5/9/2012)

Anonymous

• Valentine’s Day Guest Blog: Dear Kids, Here’s How I Met Your Dad (2/11/2011)
• Guest Mom: I’ll Be Here For You Always (5/2/2011)
• New Year’s Eve Guest Columnist “No Drama Mama:” Why I Should Just Let You Be You (12/30/2011)
• Guest columnist “Anonymous:” Why I’m Grateful For My Children (11/22/2012)

Alicia Sokol

• Guest Columnist Alicia Sokol: “If Words Could Kill” (5/23/2013)

Alan Schlecter

• Thanksgiving Guest Blog From “Doctor Happiness” (11/22/2010)

Barry Kluger

• Guest columnists Barry Kluger and Kelly Farley: Law Should Give The Sandy Hook Parents Time To Grieve (12/31/2012)

Betty Ann Hoehn

• Guest columnist Betty Ann Hoehn: Your Letter Turned Me Sober (8/3/2012)

Brenda Greenberg

• Guest Columnist Brenda Greenberg: Small Towns, Big Memories (4/11/2013)

Brian Wommack

• Father’s Day Guest Columnist Brian Wommack: Togetherness Counts (6/14/2011)

Biff Barnes

• Thanksgiving Guest Columnist Biff Barnes: What My Mom Knew (11/24/2011)

Bud Hanley

• Father’s Day Guest Columnist Bud Hanley: Dear Matthew, You Are Our Son And You Will Never Be Forgotten (6/4/2012)
• Father’s Day Guest Columnist Bud Hanley: Dear Matthew, You Are Our Son And You Will Never Be Forgotten: Part 2 (6/5/2012)
• Father’s Day Guest Columnist Bud Hanley: Dear Matthew, You Are Our Son And You Will Never Be Forgotten: Part 3 (6/6/2012)
• Father’s Day Guest Columnist Bud Hanley: Dear Matthew, You Are Our Son And You Will Never Be Forgotten: Part 4 (6/7/2012)
• Father’s Day Guest Columnist Bud Hanley: Dear Matthew, You Are Our Son And You Will Never Be Forgotten: Part 5 (6/8/2012)

Carlos Nino

• Father’s Day Guest Columnist Carlos Nino: The Art of Listening (6/17/2011)

Craig Podell

• Guest Columnist Craig Podell: How We Played Then, How We Play Now (3/21/2013)

Christopher Speed

• Father’s Day Guest Columnist Christopher Speed: Kindness, Above All (6/11/2012)

David Adelman

• Guest columnist David Adelman: A Letter To My Unborn Children (9/21/2011)

Daniel Feldman

• Guest Columnist Daniel Feldman: The Sounds Even The Deaf Can Hear (9/21/2012)
• Guest Columnist Daniel Feldman: A Yom Kippur Prayer For My Son (9/28/2012)

David Rose

• New Year’s Eve Guest Columnist David Rosen:You Opened My Eyes So I Can Open Yours (12/29/2011)
• Guest columnist David Rosen: Here’s Why I Do What I Do For A Living (8/30/2012)
• Guest columnist David Rosen: You Caught Me When I Fell And Now I’ll Be Catching You (12/28/2012)

Deborah Kennedy

• Mother’s Day Guest Columnist Deborah Kennedy: What I Never Got To Tell My Mother (5/12/2012)

Deborah Swan

• Guest Mom Deborah Swan: Three Daughters, Each an Angel in Her Own Right (5/5/2011)

Deirdre Marie Capone

• Mother’s Day guest columnist Deirdre Marie Capone: Naming Names And No Longer Holding My Breath (5/7/2012)

Dr. Elchana Elkes

• Guest columnist Dr. Elchanan Elkes: A Letter To My Children From The Gates Of Nazi Hell (8/16/2012)
• Guest columnist Dr. Elchanan Elkes: A Letter To My Son And Daughter From The Gates Of Hell: Part 2 (8/17/2012)

Dr. Sam Brody

• Father’s Day Guest Columnist Dr. Sam Brody: What Dad Taught Me (6/13/2011)

Eliza Schleifstein

• Guest columnist Eliza Schleifstein: My Miracle Girls (7/11/2012)
• Guest columnist Eliza Schleifstein: My Miracle Girls: Part 2 (7/12/2012)
• Guest columnist Eliza Schleifstein: My Miracle Girls: Part 3 (7/13/2012)
• Guest Columnist Eliza Schleifstein: In Death, We May Discover Life (12/21/2012)

Francesca Lunzer Kritz

• New Year’s Eve Guest Columnist Francesca Lunzer Kritz: Skip Chocolate Cake, Fret Less, See Degas Exhibit (12/26/2011)

Faith Tissot

• Mother’s Day Guest Columnist Faith Tissot: Why I Write Letters To My Kids (5/11/2012)

Francine Brevetti

• Guest Columnist Francine Brevetti: Spinning Memories Into Gold (8/3/2011)
• New Year’s Guest Columnist Francine Brevetti: Getting Unstuck For 2012 (12/24/2011)
• Guest Columnist Francine Brevetti: My Pantyhose Confessions (5/20/2013)

Frank Cavallaro

• Father’s Day Guest Columnist Frank Cavallaro: Why I’m Doing What My Father Never Did (6/15/2011)
• Thanksgiving Guest Columnist Frank Cavallaro: Why I Write For My Daughters (11/21/2011)
• Guest columnist Frank Cavallaro: Boys, Living Dangerously (6/29/2012)

Garry White

• Guest Columnist Garry White: A Child To Call My Own (10/27/2011)

Gina Barreca

• Valentine’s Day Guest Blog: How I Met My Husband (2/8/2011)

Halfdan W. Freihow

• Father’s Day Guest Columnist Halfdan W. Freihow: The Parrots You Drew In The Trees (6/13/2012)

Hamza Hassan Balol

• Father’s Day Guest Columnist Hamza Hassan Balol: My Father’s Blessings (6/9/2013)

Jackie Carpenter

• Guest columnist Jackie Carpenter: My Son, Acquitted Of Murder At Last! (9/10/2012)
• Guest columnist Jackie Carpenter: My Son, Acquitted Of Murder At Last! (Part 2) (9/11/2012)
• Guest columnist Jackie Carpenter: My Son, Acquitted Of Murder At Last! (Part 3) (9/12/2012)
• Guest columnist Jackie Carpenter: My Son, Acquitted Of Murder At Last! (Part 4) (9/13/2012)
• Guest Columnist Jackie Carpenter: My Son, Acquitted Of Murder At Last! (Part 5) (9/14/2012)

Jacqueline Chen Valencia

• Valentine’s Day Guest columnist Jacqueline Chen Valencia: He Followed Me, But I Found Him (2/7/2012)

Jennifer Scalise

• Guest Columnist Jennifer Scalise: The Day My Life Went Off A Cliff — and How I Climbed Back Up (3/5/2013)
• Guest Columnist Jennifer Scalise: The Day My Life Went Off A Cliff – And How I Climbed Back Up (part 2) (3/6/2013)
• Guest Columnist Jennifer Scalise: The Day My Life Went Off A Cliff – And How I Climbed Back Up (part 3) (3/7/2013)
• Guest Columnist Jennifer Scalise: The Day My Life Went Off A Cliff – And How I Climbed Back Up (part 4) (3/8/2013)

Jerry Elfassy

• Thanksgiving Guest Columnist Jerry Elfassy: Thank You, Grandpa Julius (11/20/2011)

Jill Smokler

• Guest Mom Jill Smokler: To My Favorite Child (5/1/2011)
• Thanksgiving Guest Columnist Jill Smokler: Thanks for Your Giggles, Wet Kisses And Purity of Heart (11/23/2011)

Jo Kline Cebuhar

• NUMBER-ONE ON YOUR HEIRS’ WISH LIST: YOUR ETHICAL WILL (8/25/2011)
• NUMBER-ONE ON YOUR HEIRS’ WISH LIST: YOUR ETHICAL WILL: PART 2 (8/26/2011)

Joe Scalia

• Father’s Day Guest Columnist Joe Scalia: Why I Write Books For My Kids (6/14/2012)
• Father’s Day Guest Columnist Joe Scalia: My Son Jesse’s Accident (6/15/2012)
• Father’s Day Guest Columnist Joe Scalia: Dear Jesse, Let’s Talk (6/16/2012)
• Father’s Day Guest Columnist Joseph Scalia: Locked And Loaded (6/12/2013)
• Father’s Day Guest Columnist Joseph Scalia: Locked And Loaded (part 2) (6/13/2013)
• Father’s Day Guest Columnist Joseph Scalia: Locked And Loaded (part 3) (6/14/2013)

Kate & David Marshall

• Guest columnists Kate and David Marshall: If Life Is A Journey, Here’s a Map (12/10/2012)
• Guest columnists Kate and David Marshall: If Life Is A Journey, Here’s a Map (part 2) (12/11/2012)
• Guest columnists Kate and David Marshall: If Life Is A Journey, Here’s a Map (part 3) (12/12/2012)

Karen Steinfeld

• Thanksgiving Guest Columnist Karen Steinfeld: Your Grandpa Stanley (11/18/2011)
• Thanksgiving Guest Columnist Karen Steinfeld: Grandpa Stanley’s Brave Goodbye (11/19/2011)

Kate Ellis

• Guest Moms Kristen Henderson and Sarah Kate Ellis: How We Became Pregnant Partners on the Same Day (5/6/2011)

Kristen Hendersen

• Guest Moms Kristen Henderson and Sarah Kate Ellis: How We Became Pregnant Partners on the Same Day (5/6/2011)

Laura Rossi Totten

• Guest Mom Laura Rossi: Twins Spell Wet Kisses and Magic (5/7/2011)
• Mother’s Day Guest Columnist Laura Rossi Totten: Reaching The Finish Line, Your Cheers In My Ears (5/8/2012)
• Father’s Day Guest Columnist Laura Rossi: Papa’s Special Gift To You (6/15/2013)

Leslie Long

• Guest Mom Leslie Long: Letter to My Unborn Son (5/4/2011)
• Thanksgiving Guest Columnist Leslie Long: Thanks, Boys, For Always Being Yourselves (11/22/2011)

Lin Joyce

• Guest Columnist Lin Joyce: More Than 500 Letters Later, A Granddaughter Is Born (2/7/2013)
• Guest Columnist Lin Joyce: More Than 500 Letters Later, A Granddaughter Is Born (Part 2) (2/8/2013)
• Guest Columnist Lin Joyce: My Grandmother Recalls San Francisco In The 1920s (part 2) (5/29/2013)
• Guest Columnist Lin Joyce: My Grandmother Recalls San Francisco In The 1920s (part 3) (5/30/2013)
• Guest Columnist Lin Joyce: My Grandmother Recalls San Francisco In The 1920s (part 4) (5/31/2013)
• Guest Columnist Lin Joyce: My Grandmother, Recalling San Francisco In The 1920s (5/31/2013)

Lisa Sepulveda

• Guest columnist Lisa Sepulveda: Catching Lightning In A Bottle (7/6/2012)

Mary Ann Barrucco

• Guest columnist Mary Ann Barrucco: Dear Ma, It’s Time You Heard The Truth (8/22/2012)
• Guest columnist Mary Ann Barrucco: Dear Ma, It’s Time You Heard The Truth: Part 2 (8/23/2012)
• Guest columnist Mary Ann Barrucco: Dear Ma, It’s Time You Heard The Truth: Part 3 (8/24/2012)

Mary O’Donohue

• Guest Columnist Mary O’Donohue: From A Love Of Learning Blossoms An Extraordinary Young Man (10/19/2012)
• Guest Columnist Mary O’Donohue: The Nightmare That Turned Out To Be A Sign Of Grace To Come (10/20/2012)
• Guest Columnist Mary O’Donohue: The Boy We Lost But Will Always Have (part 3) (10/21/2012)

Matt Collins

• Guest Columnist Matt Collins:Family Painting A Mystery Solved (And A Lesson Learned) (1/10/2013)
• Guest Columnist Matt Collins:Family Painting A Mystery Solved (And A Lesson Learned) (1/10/2013)

Maureen Mackey

• Guest columnist Maureen Mackey: Is “Grateful” Really The Right Word? (11/21/2012)

Melanie Ross Levin

• Guest columnist Melanie Ross Levin: How Sports Saved Me (7/27/2012)

Michael Durand

• Guest Columnist Michael Durand: Your Grandmother, Grand And Strong (10/12/2012)

Michael Freeman

• Thanksgiving Guest Blog: The Myth of the Peanut Crunch Sweet Potatoes (11/23/2010)

Michael R. Lewis

• Guest Columnist Michael R. Lewis: My Mother: No One Ever Loved Me Or Hurt Me More (6/5/2013)
• Guest Columnist Michael R. Lewis: My Father, My Hero (6/11/2013)

Michaela Gagne Hetzler

• Guest columnist Michaela Gagne Hetzler: The Fine Art Of Being A Mom (5/25/2013)

Michele C. Hollow

• Guest Columnist Michele C. Hollow: Dear Son, Why I Had To Say No To Kittens (3/1/2013)

Michelle Collins

• Guest Columnist Michelle Collins: Why Staying Healthy Is Staying Happy (10/24/2012)
• Guest columnist Michelle Collins: Why Staying Healthy Is Staying Happy (Part 2) (10/25/2012)
• Guest columnist Michelle Collins: Why Staying Healthy Is Staying Happy (Part 3) (10/26/2012)

Mindy Gikas

• New Year’s Eve Guest Columnist Mindy Gikas: Finding The Faith To Be Faithful, The Patience To Be Patient (12/28/2011)
• Guest Columnist Mindy Gikas: Patience, Patience And More Patience (My Mantra For 2013) (12/27/2012)

Nina Mohadjer

• Thanksgiving Guest Blog: My Favorite Olympians (11/24/2010)

Pam Jenkins

• Thanksgiving Guest Blog: My Favorite Olympians (11/24/2010)

Patty Chang Anker

• Guest Blog: Dashing Through the Snow (12/21/2010)

Robert Temple

• Guest Columnist robert temple: Dear Kids: Why I’m Voting Against Mitt Romney (11/1/2012)
• Guest Columnist robert temple: Dear Kids: Why I’m Voting for Barack Obama (Part 2) (11/2/2012)

Robin Kramer

• Valentine’s Day Guest Columnist Robin Kramer: Animated, Laughing, and in Love (2/8/2012)

Richard Haddad

• Guest columnist Richard Haddad: A Letter To My Baby Girl (11/16/2011)
• Thanksgiving Guest Columnist Richard Haddad: Letter To My Baby Girl (11/17/2011)
• Thanksgiving Guest Columnist Richard Haddad: Letter To My Baby Boy (11/18/2011)
• Guest columnist Richard Haddad: Your Brothers And Sister, All Coming Together Just For You (11/26/2012)
• Guest columnist Rich Haddad: Your Brothers And Sister, All Coming Together Just For You (Part 2) (11/27/2012)
• Guest columnist Rich Haddad: Your Brothers And Sister, All Coming Together Just For You (Part 3) (11/28/2012)
• Guest columnist Rich Haddad: Guest columnist Rich Haddad: Your Brothers And Sister, All Coming Together Just For You (Part 4) (11/29/2012)
• Guest columnist Rich Haddad: Your Brothers And Sister, All Coming Together Just For You (Part 5) (11/30/2012)
• Guest Columnist Richard Haddad: Welcome, Alex Nicole, My Granddaughter, You Hypnotic Beauty You (3/28/2013)

Richard Kagan

• Father’s Day Guest columnist Richard Kagan: My Dad’s Surprise Gift To Me (6/4/2013)

Seth Levin

• New Year’s Eve Guest Columnist Seth Levin: You, Little Girl, Will Be My Magic Medicine (12/27/2011)

Sally Wendkos Olds

• Valentine’s Day Guest Columnist Sally Wendkos Olds: “I Just Met The Most Wonderful Man” (2/10/2012)

Sandy Chang

• Mother’s Day Guest Columnist Sandy Chang: How Your Brother Saved Your Life (5/10/2012)

Sandy Munro

• Father’s Day Guest Columnist Sany Munro: Keeping Family Stories Close to Your Heart (6/19/2011)

Schuyler Moore

• Father’s Day Guest Columnist Schuyler Moore: Learn the Lessons I Learned (6/18/2011)

Sherrie Madia

• Guest Mom Sherrie Madia: The Secrets of Storytime (5/3/2011)

Scott Nathanson

• Father’s Day Guest Columnist Scott Nathanson: Play On, My Boys, Play On (6/12/2012)

Vincent DeNigris

• Guest Columnist Vincent DeNigris: The Mom You Lost (5/21/2013)
• Father’s Day Guest Columnist Vincent DeNigris: The Long Goodbye (6/6/2013)
• Father’s Day Guest Columnist Vincent DeNigris: The Long Goodbye (part 2) (6/7/2013)

Vivian Kirkfield

• Valentine’s Day Guest Columnist Vivian Kirkfeld: From That Grim Day Came A Family Of Five (2/8/2012)
• Guest Columnist Vivian Kirkfield: The Grandmother You Hardly Knew (5/24/2013)
• Father’s Day Guest Columnist Vivian Kirkfield: Never Enough, But Always Plenty (6/10/2013)