It’s Book Festival time of year. I love this event. I’m a reader, though less…
Columns
Fieldtripping: Celebrating Breast Cancer Awareness Month
It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month. This is the month when everything turns pink—in the grocery…
Baltimore, Just Below the Surface
Baltimore is an indescribable city, though you wouldn’t know it from all the national reporters…
Sugar Talk: Keeping it up—a guide to erectile change including cock rings, pumps, harnesses, more
As I’ve been getting older, sometimes my erection doesn’t last. Is there anything that I…
Field Tripping: What to do with yourself when you’ve got cancer and the flu
This column is supposed to be about field trips, about leaving the computer and actually…
Getting to Know You, Getting to Know All About You…
I’m an identical twin. My sister is my very best friend. We talk on…
Sugar Talk: Cervix Talk
Last week I learned that January is Cervical Health Awareness Month. I’m sure all y’all…
My life with booze—a teetotaler’s drinking diary
It’s the Booze Issue, and I gotta say, I’m the least likely contributor to such…
And then I got cancer—navigating my health and Baltimore’s Hopkins history
I’ve lived in lots of cities as an itinerant academic without a permanent gig, and…
Sugar Talk: A shit show year for everything—including sex education
2017 has been a bit of shit show. I hesitate to say it’s extra shitty…