Collecting My Thoughts

I don't understand why some media sources deliberately mislead the people who trust them for information. NBC destroyed its credibility ...

I am offered a lot of books to review, and occasionally I accept. If you've been baffled by adolescent behavior--your pupils, your kids,...

This is our great-nephew, a star in academics and sports.  And now he has a driver’s license, and here’s the list that makes it possible to ...

Even with 100% condom use, your teen-agers aren't safe. That's one of the lies kids are told. Oral sex--no evidence it reduces chanc...

The school shooting Wednesday near Seattle, Washington  is looking less like a school shooting and more like a teen love triangle with the s...

A CDC study released in March 2008 estimates that one in four (26 percent) young women between the ages of 14 and 19 in the United States – ...

This seems odd to me. I saw an article in the local paper that an AmeriCorps staffer trained by "Partnerships make a difference" i...

This morning in a class at church a retired teacher commented on the gay teen suicide epidemic. I told her there were no statistics to back...

In Ohio in 2007 there were 1,255 traffic fatalities, 389 (31%) were alcohol related. We made headway in 2008--that dropped to 1,190, 356 fat...