There's a strawberry I will never forget. I had COVID, and like so many people, I lost my sense of smell, and with it, my sense of taste. Days went by where food was just texture. Then one afternoon I made myself a bowl of oatmeal and grabbed some strawberries, mostly because I wanted something healthy. I wasn't expecting to get much out of it from a palate perspective. I bit into that strawberry, and my taste came back. It was the most amazing feeling, like I was tasting a s

"She had never imagined that curiosity was one of the many masks of love." - Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez For the past 14 years, much of my professional life has been dedicated to taking care of child and adolescent victims of sexual abuse, as well as teaching about trauma, sexual anatomy, and sexually transmitted infections. My favorite moments in my work are getting to talk to teens about the wholeness of their bodies, hopefully dispelling at least a