Sex Ed Transforms

Dear University of Virginia, Read my blog, and then you'll see why I want to join your Center to study youth relationships with peers...

The most dominant image I have is me sitting on my couch staring at the ceiling. But really I was luckier than that – it was a beautiful fa...

In August, I entered the Feministing.com "So You Think You Can Blog" contest. Two blog posts were required for the first round: ...

I thought I could be everything that other people needed me to be, but I can’t. There’s no way I can. So why am I still crying over my wed...

Planning that wedding woke me up. In addition to the wonderful sense of joy and community (and there was so much of that), I also experience...

I wrote this piece to share with several wedding guests who came to spend time with me in the hour before the ceremony, in a tradition calle...

In the last week before our wedding, there are still several loose ends. Several decisions that still need to be made, several details we ov...

I can’t exactly identify when it happened, but I’m sure it was sometime this spring semester. I hadn’t had this experience since about fifth...

From even before getting engaged, I knew that my partner and I would have a blast working out our wedding ceremony. We found a fabulous frie...

I had a moment this afternoon that justified my decision to spend one month writing about weddings on a blog that is dedicated to exploratio...

This post is my attempt to summarize some of my recent thoughts on directions for research with the potential to transform the way...

Chloe’s blog post on Feministing last July put into perspective some of my recent thoughts regarding weddings and wedding-planning—and even...

This week I had the honor of attending the 2010 Teen Pregnancy Institute: Expecting Success For Youth And Young Families , hosted by the Mas...

This is the first time I've gotten a comment filled with such bigotry on my blog. I'm quite upset, and I'm very sorry for my re...

I often reflect on all the reasons I'm really lucky to have the parents that I have. These reasons include the values that my parents h...

My sixth-grade students need more attention. And I don't just mean they need a better attention span or that they need to pay more atte...

To a former health student, who asked me for advice about boyfriend troubles (by sending me a facebook message): I wish I could sit with you...

I want my students to grow up valuing community. I want them to identify as members of a community, and I want them to experience the power...