By Leslie Gaar of Pails & Fires Dear Brock Turner, I imagine you must be feeling a little nervous after having been released from jail recently. And with good reason: you served only half of a sentence that already fell woefully short of what any decent person would consider acceptable […]
By Joanna McClanahan of Ramblin’ Mama Humans of New York, a popular Facebook photo blog, ran a photo of Hillary Clinton yesterday which is going viral. The photo included the presidential candidate’s story of taking her admissions test at Harvard and how her life experiences have shaped the person she […]
When journalist and Daily Beast staff writer Olivia Nuzzi shared an article on her professional Facebook on Labor Day, she expected to receive some backlash because the article was about Donald Trump. Because the article was contentious, and because, according to Nuzzi, her “Facebook page is a cesspool of trolls […]
When Kristen Munsell Tripp received an anonymous complaint about her kids making noise in her back yard, she responded with a public letter that has moms everywhere shouting, “Amen, sister!” in solidarity. Screenshot: Kristen Munsell Tripp Facebook Tripp responded by addressing her neighbor’s accusations while also defending her children’s right to […]
By Joanna McClanahan of Ramblin’ Mama For one day, a Florida mother didn’t have to worry about her autistic son eating lunch alone. Leah Paske recently posted this touching story on Facebook. She explained the difficulty of our middle school years and how that has compounded the anxiety she feels for her […]
By Carrie Tinsley of Carrie On Y’all I can make this funny, I thought. Sure, I’m a little scared, but I’ll be okay. The nervous-mother-of-three in the gun store making sarcastic observations just has to be comical. In early June — before the nightmare mass shooting in Orlando, before the […]
By Whitney Fleming of Playdates on Fridays Brock Turner gets released from jail Friday, September 2, 2016, after serving three months in Santa Clara County jail. For those of you not familiar, Mr. Turner, a scholar athlete and Olympic swimming hopeful, was convicted in March of three felony counts: assault with […]
Colin Kaepernick, quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, is the new John Carlos or Tommie Smith of 1968. Carlos and Smith raised a fist in support of the Black Power movement during the playing of our national anthem at the Olympic Games that year. Two athletes who benefited from the rights […]