Teen pregnancy continues to decline and a four-decade-long culture battle comes to an end. The third presidential debate of 2016 marked new lows in mudslinging that passed as high-minded public discourse, but on one topic that has been bitterly divisive for decades, Republican candidate Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton spoke clearly and coherently: abortion […]
Maybe the ‘meantime’ has always been my time. Maybe this was the trajectory predestined in the stars, if you believe in that sort of thing. Over two thousand students have walked across my classroom threshold. I have counseled and consoled as they’ve stressed over research papers and graduation projects, evaluated poignant and disastrous essays, and conferenced […]
My earliest sex education didn’t even mention that sex felt good. I was reassured that it was all right to say no, but never offered a script for arriving at yes. Recently, I wrote an essay about dating older men when I was still in my teens. I was shocked, though I shouldn’t have been, […]
