On why watching ‘Dallas’ may be harmful to your health..

I. With gleaming-white buckteeth, unharnessed by braces, Greg Downes had it rough.  His wide brown eyes revealed every injustice he’d ever endured.  Every time he’d been tricked, teased or made to eat grass, it was all there in his big wounded antelope eyes. When Greg was angry, which was often, he’d sit on the curb [...]

This is what happens when a fifth grade teacher gives his first puberty talk…

In Part I of This Post: I’d been asked by the school nurse to give my fifth grade boys the puberty talk. A couple problems, though: First, I’d never given anyone the puberty talk. Next, the nurse had asked that I refrain from discussing too much about sex while giving the talk. Yeah right, I [...]

Picture the Scene: It’s that time of year when the fifth graders at my elementary school get the puberty talk. The thing is, the school doesn’t have a regular health teacher. That left the nurse to talk to the girls. The fifth grade boys were another story. Prior to this year, a senior teacher had [...]