My college bar had only three rules: no drugs, no fighting, and no sleeping. As a student manager there, I found enforcing the first one easy -- I had earned a reputation as a royal bitch for scooping up neat lines of white powder right out from under eager noses....

If you're the parent of young children and you aren't freaked out and running screaming through the streets, I can't relate. Oh, maybe you're the relaxed type, calmly removing the lead-coated Sarge trucks and the Polly Pocket dolls -- with their intestine-shredding magnets -- from your child's damp clutches. Maybe...

The news last week struck me like a blow: 29 percent of men report having 15 or more female sexual partners in a lifetime, while only nine percent of women report having had sex with 15 or more men. This is all my fault. Years ago, when I was just...

In the beginning, we did it all the time. Two or three times a day and a couple of times at night, the way anyone in their twenties would. It didn't take long and it never seemed to interrupt life the way sex does when you're older and have a...

Few topics can incite people as much as sex ed. And yet for all the energy and money we're investing in it, we're still doing something wrong. The overall rate of unplanned pregnancies remains unchanged; the rate for poor women is rising. And the latest study to join the abstinence...

Ramps. Also called wild leeks. You can't plant them. Well, you can plant them -- a university down south has done it -- but they don't grow. You might wish they did when you taste their slightly sweet, onion-garlic flavor. Ramps grow wild in the woods and the only...

When I learned recently that my son will start reading Shakespeare in 9th grade English next year, I was determined to save him from my fate. I can still feel the hot shame of sitting in English class reading Romeo and Juliet and being totally confused. All around me the...