“Just remember, you’re not alone,” Ms. M said as she cradled the eighteen-year-old college freshman girl, looking past the watery wells...

When cigarette smoke enters your mouth the lining in your nose and esophagus will almost immediately become red and irritated. This is...

Helping Survivors is an online-only organization working remotely providing resources for individuals who have experienced sexual assault...

I turn 60 and think, Shit, if I want learn Spanish someday, I better get crackin’. So I move to Oaxaca and enroll in language school, but...

I remember when, on November 18 of 1956, Kruschev declared, “We will bury you!”. (What he actually said was, "My vas pokhoronim,” which...

I didn’t care how badly he spoke Greek. John was strikingly handsome. Beautiful dark brown eyes, a well-proportionated body, and dashing...

It’s been the kind of morning where: You know you mopped the kitchen floor last night but it’s sticky this morning, so you mop again. You...

Here in south-central Alaska, winter seemed to drag on and on. Deep cold hung with us into March, snow fell almost daily from December...

When I awoke that day, I remember the faint sound of the cuckoo clock downstairs. Cuckoo. Cuckoo. Doing. Doing. Cuckoo. My mother...

When my husband Bob surprised me with a near end of pandemic get-away to Honolulu I was beyond thankful. “Yes, I’m in!” I blurted with...

At almost 22 years old, I wasn't used to guys who were invested in my orgasms and never tried to get away without using a condom. My love...

1 We drove from Harlem to Vermont in silence. My sister Jodie sat next to me in the backseat, reading when the sun was out and sleeping...