Dear December: Let’s Do This, with Plenty of Activism and Events
This year will be going out with a bang, with a flurry of events and launches. A summary: December 2 is the Red Umbrella Diaries Family Affairs event in NYC, to ring in the holiday season. Featured storytellers include Lily Burana, the author of the memoirs Strip City and I Love a Man in Uniform: [...]
October 10: Talking About the Taboo at the Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health in Providence
This Sunday, I may be breaking my New Year’s Resolution. Pretty dramatic, eh? My resolution was to abstain… from attending conferences this year. So far, so good! But I’m ruining it all on Sunday, I think. I will refer to the thing I’m participating in as an event, or a conversation, or a workshop – [...]
I Want to Tell You About India
The Indian Ocean at sunset, pic by me. I want to tell you about India. About: How in Delhi the salt, spice, heat, and exhaust in the air swirl together in a heavy but enticing way. And when I took my first breath of NYC air at JFK it actually felt fresh. Being under curfew [...]
Amsterdam and Berlin 2009 in Pictures and Video
Jennifer Lyon Bell, my lovely hostess, and I – looking a little crazy with excitement over snacks: herring and frites. As I was embarking on my trip to Europe, I noted that I have been fortunate to create four Flickr sets for visits to Amsterdam and Berlin over the past two years. New York, Amsterdam, [...]
On Vacation!
Yep, you read properly! I’m on vacation in Amsterdam and Berlin. And I’m not blogging at all. Well, except for this post, which is to tell you I’m not blogging. However, I will be posting adventures and photos in the following places: Twitter – will be updated most frequently Facebook Flickr – my account is [...]
Sex 2.0 in DC, May 9th
I’m super excited for the second year of Sex 2.0, which is taking place in the DC metro area (technically Silver Springs, MD) on Saturday, May 9th. Last year Amber spearheaded efforts at organizing the event, and there was so much excitement about it that we pretty quickly decided that there would be an event [...]
Geeky Gothy Road Trip: Salem, MA
This weekend I took a much needed road trip with my most excellent of travel pals, Eliyanna (who used to be my co-executive editor at $pread). We’ve also had fun traveling together on my 2007 summer East Coast book tour, and this past summer we went to Amsterdam together. We’ve also done a variety of [...]
Pictures! Berlin Porn Film Festival & Sex Bloggers Calendar Launch Party
This morning as I was uploading pictures of last night’s Sex Blogger Calendar Launch Party to Flickr and Facebook, I realized that I never did a recap of my time in Berlin. I did indeed post pics from that week on Flickr but I did repost them here. So this post is proof of two [...]
Presenting at Ignite NYC Tonight
Tonight I’m showing my geeky (but still dirty) colors at Ignite NYC. Here’s a repost of info about the event: On September 15th we will have 10 Ignite speakers who each get just five minutes on stage. Bre Pettis, the other co-creator of Ignite will be hosting a cupcake decorating contest. Ignite is going to [...]
Amsterdam Photo Fun
Amsterdam and the Pinched festival were ridiculously fun and amazing. i have some more thoughtful posts in the works about the people and the ideas I spent time with during my time in Amsterdam, but for now, let’s kick things off with some photos – and one video. I have more video on the way: [...]

