The Good Mother
Mothering is a tough job, and in this essay by a Berkeley memoirist, pregnancy and birth change the life of a teenage mother—for the better.
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Less Is More
A longtime Berkeley resident explains why she loves browsing and buying in our area’s friendly, one-of-a-kind boutiques, independent stores, and family-owned businesses.
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Inside Out
Meet a handful of local alchemists who, right this very minute, are concocting attractively packaged, toxin-free beauty products to clear your skin, put roses in your cheeks, and make you smell irresistible.
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Stepping Off the Ladder
Twenty years ago, college-bound high school seniors graduated in June and headed straight to campus in September. But these days, more and more young students are taking a year off in between high school and college—a “gap year”—to travel, work, or re-energize before plunging full-bore into academia.
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Christmas Visitor
A foreign guest thrills a young German girl in the 1960s and adds excitement to her already thrilling Christmas Eve in Berlin.
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