HI, I'M CARYN VAINIO.

I have no horse in this race. I’m a 40-year-old straight, white woman. I’m married to my husband, and we have a son. I have acquaintances who are gay and some who are transgendered — no one that I spend significant time socializing with (and I have plenty of non-gay and non-transgendered acquaintances I also don’t spend significant time socializing with), but people that I keep in touch with because I’ve crossed paths with them either in my professional life or via my hobbies, and I enjoy having them in my life. Read more →

Matt and I took a trip to Cannon Beach, Oregon this past week, something that we had been dying to do for a while but really had to plan carefully — I’ve been in crunch working on Monday Night Combat … Read more →

On the weekends where we don’t have an agenda Matt and I have nice, relaxing morning routine: we get up and make coffee and/or tea and we sit on the couch upstairs looking at the latest headlines and such on … Read more →

I have a solution for preventing the bird flu epidemic that’s threatening to wipe us all out: Don’t have sex with birds. And if you must have sex with birds, always wear a condom. Has the AIDS movement taught us … Read more →