Subtitle:
Here’s hoping the Province can get beyond the birds and the bees – and retrograde thinking
“What are these for?” Oliver asked recently, holding my box of tampons that should have remained in the medicine cabinet. What to say? I picked the lame option.
“I’ll explain in a few years. It’ll make more sense then.” That sometimes worked. Not today.
“I want to know now.”
I paused and took a deep breath. “I have a period every month. There’s blood, and these help.” Time to exhale. I waited for the next question.
