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How Chessy Prout Stood Up For Herself and All Victims of Rape
A 17-year-old girl named Chessy Prout is a teenage superhero. Two years ago, when she was a freshman in high school, Chessy accepted a date with a senior, an 18-year-old athlete named Owen Labrie, who was headed to Harvard in the fall. Both Labrie and Chessy Prout were students at the prestigious New England boarding…
How Jasinda Wilder Saved Her Family’s Home Writing Steamy Romance Novels
Have you ever been in a situation when you felt the walls of your life closing in on you; pressing against your hope, your faith, your peace?I know what that feels like. My family suffered a series of back-to-back blows. My son was diagnosed with autism on a Thursday, and the next day, my husband lost his job. We were pawning, scraping and doing everything we could think of to keep our heads above …
What Your Child’s College Doesn’t Want You To Know
I was 18, a college freshman thrilled about living on my own. I was also secretly petrified without my parents protection and rules. As part of learning how to take care of myself, I attended a campus safety orientation for freshman women.The goal was to empower us to avoid being victims of sexual assault while at college. We were issued a rape whistle on a red neck lanyard. We were told to memorize all …
Too Much Family Togetherness?
On every street corner at this time of year, I see small inter-generational huddles: grandparents, parents, and kids, together for the holidays. Shopping for last minute presents, walking the neighborhood, stopping at the fudge shop on the corner. Everyone is bundled up, looking like colorful postcards of families happy to be together as Christmas inches closer.But behind closed doors, and inside each persons head, I know the snapshot gets a lot morecomplicated …
Obscene Sorority Girl: Why My Kids Are NEVER Going to College
On April 18, a profanity-filled email from Delta Gamma sorority sister Rebecca Martinsonhit the Internet via Gawker and Deadspin. The blistering rant from Martinson, a junio