Last week I talked about how we try to talk to our kids about sex once a year. Today, I've enlisted Leslie Dixon, Executive Director/Founder of the sexual education org The Birds & Bees Connection, to tell us more about how to best talk to our kids. As a sexual health educator with more than 20 years of experience, I hear over and over again from parents that they would like to be having conversations with their kids but are not sure when or how or what to say. One way or another, . . .

Today's guest post is from my dear friend Kelly Wickham Hurst, who is a 23 year public school veteran both in the classroom as a teacher and as an administrator for the last 10 years. She recently founded Being Black at School to advocate for the marginalized Black students who still, according to data and research, are disciplined at 4 times the rate of their white peers. Kelly asked me to sit on the board of this organization and I was happy to join her. She is the married . . .

On September 11, 2001, I was awake much earlier than I wanted to be . . . struggling with insomnia and watching mindless tv to try to get back to sleep.  I don’t remember what I was watching, but I do remember the program was interrupted to report on the first plane striking the tower.  It seemed like an awful accident, and I watched in horror, wondering how this could have happened.  When the second plane crashed, I woke up Mark, and we watched together in a state of shock.  . . .