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This is my last Field Tripping column for City Paper. It has been a good run, a gift to be allowed to write every other week about another adventure in or
As I'm sure you've heard, City Paper is winding down after 40 years of weekly publication. It's such a bummer in so many ways, a sign of times I don't always
I've been so busy lately. If I'm being real, I've largely been busy resenting the idea of being busy, but it all feels busy nonetheless. I have been promised
I love Labor Day, and not just for the three-day weekend that at this point in my life I'm finally blessed to get. Not everybody gets Labor Day off, as
It's summertime, and that's the time that every family packs up and heads to the national park/beach/grandma's house, at least according to my Facebook, TV,
My dad was really proud of how little he gave my siblings and I when we headed off to college. "All I got was a carton of cigarettes and 50 bucks," he'd
It's that Pride time of year again, a whole month celebrating The Gays and our insistence that we're here, we're queer, and you should probably be getting used
This May marks the end of my first decade as a full-time college teacher. I've been moving in school calendars for virtually all of my 41 years, minus the
I've been menstruating for almost 30 years now. I got my first period at my cousin Rachel's wedding in August 1987. I was really excited for the big day
Big field trip news this week: I got to go to Scranton, Pa. and learn all about coal. It was amazing and I can't wait to go back.
<p><b>A couple summers ago </b>I took a week to drive the 125 miles of the <runtime:topic id="PEHST002009">Harriet Tubman</runtime:topic> Byway along the Easte
It’s the sex issue, and I want to write a sex-themed column to stay on theme and everything, but I have to say, a Trump administration is a serious boner
<p><b>The Baltimore Eagle has finally</b> landed in Station North. The waiting has been palpable, at least for the queer folks who have watched their bars and c
<p><b>As soon as I saw</b> the call going out across my social media for a Women's March on Washington in the wake of the election of Donald Trump, I knew I di
<p><b>It's a new year, </b>and that of course means a new you, right? Looks like I'm going to be stuck with the same old me, unfortunately, but this past month