In August of 2024, I said goodbye — through tears — to a group of incredible summer camp staff friends I made over the past three summers who live overseas. “Don’t worry,” I told them. “I’ll come ...

I wait in line, shivering, my skin beginning to resemble that of a plucked chicken. Glancing left, I see that several open, communal shower stalls lay empty, yet I stubbornly wait to enter a private ...

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Communal showers after PE (aka gym class) in school may as well have been a torture device. Everyone who experienced that particular flavor of teenage hell remembers how stressful it was to have to ...

Dear Straight Talk: I’m starting middle school this fall and will have to change for gym class in the locker room and even take communal showers. The gym teacher is strict about making everybody ...