Kelly Salasin

Category: Coming of Age

  • Kissing Leads to “YES!”

    by Kelly Salasin “With the temptations so great for the young these days, I hope that your husband will not find you second hand…” These were the words received in a letter from my great-grandmother during my freshman year at college! Reading them again, twenty years later, I still find myself gasping in surprise. How…

  • Military Zen

    My ears have been perked to the rise in suicides in the military of late. It occurs to me that all through history, lives are sacrificed in order to shift thinking. In the past years, I’ve been struck by the attention to “war crimes”- soldiers tried for “mistreating” prisoners of war–crimes within crimes– and the…