Confidence Woman–On the Occasion that Your Mother Follows Your Lead

Dear Lily June, I have always been a little afraid of self-confidence. Where does one draw the line between being… Read more Confidence Woman–On the Occasion that Your Mother Follows Your Lead

Behind Every Great Woman–On the Occasion that You Find Yourself with a Feminist

Dear Lily June, If you decide you do not want or need a partner in this life, honey, I shall… Read more Behind Every Great Woman–On the Occasion that You Find Yourself with a Feminist

Dear Lily June, I regularly read you this children’s story called “Cookies” from a larger collection. In it, two friends, Frog and Toad,… Read more Box, String, Ladder, Birds–On the Occasion that You Need Willpower

Dear Lily June, The other day, I got into an argument with a co-worker. There is a TV in the… Read more Wrinkles & Grays–In Which We Get Older Everyday

Dear Lily June, My one act of clothing rebellion was this: Once, at sixteen, I was wearing a bright peach… Read more The Talk, Part 9 of 10,000–In Which Clothes (Don’t?) Make the Western Woman

Dear Lily June, The very definition of a “double-edged sword” is a weapon that can cut both ways–possibly injuring the… Read more The Talk, Part 4 of 10,000–In Which There Are More than Two Ways to Be a Woman

Dear Lily June, I don’t want to write this letter. I don’t want to tell you that you live in… Read more The Talk, Part 2 of 10,000–In Which No Means No

Dear Lily June, When it comes to gender, know that your mother was raised in a different era than you.… Read more He, She, They, Ze, Hir–In Which I Encourage You to Be Who You Are

Dear Lily June, Why would I attack a movie that’s been, for the almost 25 years of its existence, one… Read more Tale as Old as Time, Part II–In Which I Defend Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (1991)

Dear Lily June, As part of an ongoing series where I’ll apparently ruin for you the same classic Disney films… Read more Tale as Old as Time, Part I–In Which I Critique Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (1991)