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Archive for January, 2009

When I was 21 and spending a semester in Wales, I traveled around France, Italy, and Spain during our month-long Easter break. I was not too surprised to discover while in Paris that I had an ear infection that could not be ignored (my usual treatment of choice). I was already sleeping in a cheap [...]

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Sex 101

The first time I had sex education was in the fifth grade. The stereotypically fat, dumpy-looking health teacher with a terrible smoker’s croak of a voice would come from the city’s middle school to my elementary school twice a week to replace phrases like “predicate nominative” and “subject-verb agreement” with “engorged penis” and “cervical mucus.” [...]

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