Last year during my SAAM series, I wrote this post about things you shouldn’t say to a friend and what to say instead in order to help readers communicate better with the people in their life who have confided in them about their experience.  Communication, however, is a two-way street and if you find you’re […]

I started the Sexual Assault Awareness Month Series on my blog because well, I wanted to raise awareness, duh.  I wanted to change the way we talk about rape and to me, that starts with changing the way we think about rape. I recognize that “we” may only be the couple hundred Facebook friends I […]

Remember a couple of summers ago when everyone on your Facebook feed and their cousin was pouring buckets of ice water on their heads in the name of ALS?  What originally started out as a fundraiser for the ALS association swept the internet and before you can say “burr” everyone’s news feeds were flooded with […]