A High School class in Florida consisted of a particularly well- motivated
group of juniors. Students felt free to ask questions on any subject that
concerned them. One afternoon a girl raised her hand and asked me to explain all
the talk about a woman’s “biological clock.”
After I’d finished, there was a moment of silence, and then another hand shot
up. “Mrs. Woodard,” a student asked, “is your clock still ticking, or has the
alarm gone off?”