The Associated Press has obtained a draft executive order this week in which Donald Trump declared his intention to suspend legal immigration for Syrian refugees as well as work visas from “high risk” (read: Muslim) countries. The document also contained steps toward building a wall-o-white-supremacy on the Mexican border. It seems that […]
My kids and I were hiking along the Puget Sound last summer when we stumbled across a pool of tiny tadpoles. We sat and watched them scoot around the water for a while. My daughter squealed with delight, dipping her hand in while they raced around it. A park ranger came over and immediately […]
I’m sorry to be the one to break this to you, but this is not a MockMom piece. Nope. No satire here. According to a recent survey from Time Out, 39% of folks admit to choking the chicken in the office john. I don’t know if it is boredom, laziness, or […]
Just when I thought I’d seen it all, an advertisement popped up in my browser for The Electro Deflecto Unisex Tin Foil Hat. Now, before you go and judge my internet history and determine the ad targeted my cookies because I am some sort of crazy conspiracy theorist, I’ll have […]
The No Regrets Farm in Albany, Oregon has started a new trend called “Goat Yoga,” because Oregon is weird AF. Goat Yoga is exactly what it sounds like: a class where participants do yoga while goats loiter around them (and probably urinate on the grass all willy-nilly…so relaxing.) For the […]
My sister, Sarah, dropped out of high school because of drama queens. Just before Sarah’s junior year, a tragic car accident killed one of the popular girls. Sarah didn’t know what to say as a condolence, so she just fumbled, “I don’t know what I’d do if it had been my best friend […]
Netflix has ordered new episodes of the beloved children’s series “The Magic School Bus,” which will begin airing soon. Those of us who grew up in the 1990s remember when PBS brought us Joanna Cole’s stories in animated form. The lead character, school teacher Valerie Frizzle, took her class on magical […]
Catherine Elizabeth Clennan of Laramie, Wyoming has asked the good people of the internet to give her 5 million dollars. The reason is unclear. According to her GoFundMe page, Clennan feels she needs to escape the war-torn oppression of Wyoming in order to fulfill her (yet again cryptic and ambiguous) dream. She […]