Apropos of what David Eyrise and then David said about your comments, and your response to Eyrise: it seems the point is that your comments tend inevitably to be callow and superficial, as is appropriate for most people your age. The difference between you and most of your contemporaries, of course, is that you publish your juvenalia on the Internet and garner a certain amount of notoriety from your the act.

Read 1 Corinthians 13. Consult your older, wiser, better-read and trusted advisors. Don’t try so hard to be a taste-maker. Hunker down, Get your work done.

All this is said with affection, actually, and without a trace of rancor, as I do enjoy reading your rants. But you must know that I enjoy them the way I enjoy hearing my children do so. Growing up in public is dangerous and, ultimately, foolish.

Lingering barely below the surface, methinks this woman has some serious issues of inadequacy, not only in the baby making department.

Assuming she made the sandwiches from canned tuna, I find myself wondering…did she use light or white?

Nico responds: To write/think about the news that gets popped into my mailbox once a week?

Nico responds: True, I am totally conflating. And I completely get the idea of wanting to have your own biological child. But imagine what it’s like to read the paper, as a gay, and see these two piles of people (women wanting children + children wanting moms) and then be told that you’re completely disqualified from the whole game. There is something . . . conflatable about it! But, I get wanting to have your own kid, and I can’t imagine how insanely difficult it might be (this is my other luxury, which is to never know the pains of childbirth…)