Fifty Shades of Healthy Sex
By Carolyn Herbst Lewis There is much ado these days about E.J. James’ Fifty Shades series. While some folks are defending it as sex-positive, others condemn it for promoting female powerlessness and...
View ArticleCall the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times Britain in the 1950s
By Sandra Trudgen Dawson As I watched Call the Midwife, I recalled my own personal memories and relationship with the National Health System (NHS). I trained as a midwife in the late 1980s in one of...
View ArticleMature Audiences Only: Sex and Censorship at the Movies
By Carrie Adkins Can we all just finally agree that the ratings system currently used by the Motion Picture Association of America is misguided, outdated, and increasingly irrelevant? I realize I am...
View ArticleFrozen Pipes on the Prairie
By Carolyn Herbst Lewis We don't have water. The pipes running through our walls are dry. I discovered this situation nine mornings ago. I woke to visit Aunt Nellie, as my great aunt would say, and,...
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