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One of the things I talked about in my presentation last week was the difficulty of starting conversations about sex. This is only exasperated, of course, when you’re trying to have the conversation between generations rather than within the generations. I talk with my friends, my peers, about sex. Most (although not all) teenagers and …
One of my old posts – A Top Ten List for Talking to Teens About…Well, you know… is up online today at RH Reality Check! Go check it out, either at RH Reality Check or on my site.
What a weekend! This International Convocation of Unitarian Universalist Women (ICUUW) has brought together so many amazing women who do so many amazing things that I have simply not been able to keep up. I am also quite sleepy from staying up far too late with the young people and getting up far too early …
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 recently received a short e-mail from a friend. She agreed to let me post it here, in it’s entirety: Subject: body thought When I am happy–I eat–I gain weight. When I am sad–I don’t eat–I lose weight. When I am on the thin side, people compliment me all the time. When I am on …
I apologize for my absence here and everywhere else online. This has not been a happy absence. Very early in the morning on Friday, February 6th my cousin Craig Arriola fell backwards off his second story balcony and fractured his scull. It was thirty, forty minutes before he was found, and despite the best medical …
Here is the recording of my Irish radio show on RedFM from last Thursday! Hooray! If you click on the link below, another window will open and you will be able to listen to the show. It’s about 15 minutes, all in all, and well worth the listen, if I do say so myself! Karen …
I’m on FriendFeed now, and feeling a little bit lonely. Anyone out there willing to be my FriendFeed friend? I won’t disappoint you, I promise!
As some of you might remember, I am an editor at Blog Nosh. Blog Nosh is an online magazine dedicated to republishing the best of the archived posts around the Internet. I am tucked away in the Personal section, which I think is amuzing, and I republish posts about sex and sexuality and body image …
So… Those condom ads I posted earlier in the week? Those are funny. Damn funny, if I do say so myself. But they’re not terribly educational. Or at all educational. So what’s the point? The point is that because they’re funny, they’re accessible and they make the topic accessible. American society (along with a few …