Twenty-first century moms live a life similar to previous generations. I’m pretty sure my grandma was exhausted, watched the clock until bedtime, and prayed to the potty-training gods just like her granddaughter would 60 years later. She probably poured a bigger than usual glass of wine some days, commiserated […]
Author: Karen Johnson
16 Tweets About Our Love/Hate Relationship with Alexa
Remember in the days of yore when we had to like get up and change the radio? Or physically write down a grocery list? Or make (and keep) mental notes so we didn’t forget shit like picking up our kids and changing over the laundry? Rough world, that was. A few […]
21 Tweets About That One Time We Couldn’t Eat Lettuce and No One Cared
When we’re old and gray and our kids ask us, “Grandma and Grandpa, what was it like back then?” What will we tell them? We were the first tech-savvy generation and stared at our phones all day. Social media was new and exciting and sucked out our sense of security […]
16 Hysterical Tweets About The Fun Of Packing School Lunches
I don’t know about you guys, but as a parent, I enjoy it when my kids come home from school starving and the healthy lunch I packed for them is either still in their lunchbox or in the trash. It’s my favorite part of parenting. I mean, if buying those […]
Customers Band Together to Help Shop Owner, Proving the World Will Be Okay
I don’t know about you guys, but I’ve got one foot in the black hole where the internet and all of its ugliness ceases to exist. Between keyboard warriors spewing their judgment after reading only the headlines of articles, sancti-parents telling all the other parents how they’re doing it wrong, […]
16 Tweets About The Sh*t-Storm That Is Being a Stay-at-Home Parent
My favorite SAHM moments are when it’s 9 a.m. and I’m wrestling a hangry toddler soaked in pee at Target and some woman named Nancy sees me emerge from the tiny bathroom stall, dripping with sweat, also now smelling like pee, and tells me “how lucky I am” to be […]
White Guy Calls Cops on Black Woman With Nice Car, Not Believing It’s Hers
I started to make a list recently (because I love lists, but also because of the next point I’m about to make) about all the things I do on the regular without issue. For example, I was traveling a few months ago and needed to do some work on my […]
Nike Signs First Professional Athlete With Cerebral Palsy
Justin Gallegos is a runner. He dreams of breaking the 2-hour barrier in the half-marathon—something that for even the healthiest person is a major achievement. But for Justin? Almost an impossibility. Almost. Justin suffers from cerebral palsy, a disability that can affect muscle and brain development, posture, and range of […]