Sandy Allen
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How Pie Keeps Me Steady
I've loved baking pie since I was a kid. In recent years, while writing a book about schizophrenia, I began to think more about why.
"How Simple Is That?": At Home With Ina Garten
Whether she's comfortable with it or not, the Barefoot Contessa star has one of the most devoted fandoms among cookbook giants. An unprecedented look inside her picture-perfect empire.
I Was The Best Fake Attorney in America
In 2005, I won the High School Mock Trial National Championships, a victory that was both huge and, to most people, meaningless. Ten years later, I returned to nationals to try and make sense of what that victory meant — and what this competitive celebration of our legal system even is.
I Haven't Read Most Books
And that's OK.
Police Were Called To Take Teresa Sheehan To A Hospital. Instead, They Shot Her Seven Times.
In 2008, San Francisco police were called to help transport a woman with mental illness to a hospital. Instead, they shot her seven times and she was charged with five felonies. This is the story of how police became our nation's mental health care workers, and how Teresa Sheehan's family has fought for her before the shooting — and since.
Why I Still Love "Rent"
The 1996 musical about AIDS-afflicted artists scandalized and inspired my romantic teenage self. Figuring out what Rent got totally wrong about adult life — and right.