Here are a couple of recent articles from salon.com that I really enjoyed.

In the first, entitled "I Hate TV", a TV critic, same as age me and raised on the boob tube, talks about cutting the cord.

The second, "Faith in the Baby", is a mother's heart-breaking and heart-warming look back on her years raising a mentally retarded son. It's not sappy or sentimental, but it still had me weepy in spots.