Beren deMotier

I got an email from a 19-year-old nephew recently which started out with the unlikely statement, “I have some interesting questions concerning being a lesbian.”

Why turning into your mother may not be a (completely) bad thing.

We have no one to blame but ourselves. We knew what we were doing. And we were smart enough to do the math. We just weren’t optimistic that things were going to work out first time, twice.

Chaperoning on a field trip isn't every woman's cup of tea: the noise, the confusion, the fact that you have to hold your tongue when you'd like to be frank about some of the behavior that gets ignored.