Originally published on The New York Times on February 1, 2014 By Nicholas Kristoff. WHEN Woody Allen received a Golden Globe award for lifetime achievement a few weeks ago, there was a lively debate about whether it was appropriate to honor a man who is an artistic giant but also…
We all live behind white picket fences, right? Or at least we think everyone else does. We all believe that everyone else lives a sheltered life and that ours is the only one screwed up, right? A few years ago, I went back to college to learn Spanish. One of…
“When they woke him up and told him to get dressed, he kept repeating, “Why is she doing this to me? Ang, why is she doing this?” My mom didn’t answer him. She just kept her head turned away from him. I don’t know if they took him to jail…
“One day I was having a Bible study with Rita, an older lady at our congregation. We were reading about the word molestation. I had never heard that word before that day. Rita explained, “It’s when an adult touches a young person’s private areas and does things to them.”
