**Editor’s note: I have a comprehensive sex ed class for middle school students starting in Austin soon! If you’re local, or local enough, that you’re interested, drop me an e-mail (karen.rayne@gmail.com), and we’ll talk!**
The new year starts with new resolutions! This year I have decided to have three resolutions, and if I accomplish one I [...]
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What is it that I do best?
As I prepare for another round of middle school and parent classes in the spring, return to working on editing my book for publication sometime in 2012, and look to expand my speaking work both in Austin and around the country, I am considering how to market myself. Part of this process is understanding why [...]
My purple hair
I don’t think I’ve mentioned in this space that I dyed my hair purple about six months ago. I hadn’t ever dyed my hair before, and I thought it would be fun. So away I went! Bleach first, then a luscious dark purple. The purple is in a crown around my hairline - the majority [...]
Who should do the sex education?
The parents.
I want to make it very, very clear that I strongly believe that the parents are the first and primary sex educators for their children, and in an ideal world would continue to be the primary sexuality educators through adolescence. Most of what I do is help parents learn how to be open and [...]
Today’s ruminations on age
“How old ARE you??”
“You have KIDS??”
“Wow, I never would have guessed.”
At this International Women’s conference, they have decided to group youth (high school) and young adults (19 through 35 years old) together into a social group they call YAYAs (Youth And Young Adults). This means that I am technically a young adult, and that my [...]
I am at the ICUUW Conference
Yesterday I arrived in Houston for the International Convocation of Unitarian Universalist Women (ICUUW). I am delighted to be here with 550 or so other Unitarian Universalist women, talking about how to improve the lives of women around the world. On Saturday I will be presenting about how and why to increase the intergenerational conversations [...]
I’m going to be on Irish radio!
How cool is that? I’ll be live on Irish radio station RedFM on their segment Sexually Speaking from 5:00 to 5:20pm next Thursday - February 5th. Their listeners text in their questions, the presenter chooses some of them, and asks the sexpert.
I’ve been thinking doing a late-night radio call-in show would be huge fun, and [...]
