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 […]
There’s just over a week left of President Obama’s time in office, and yes, that is the most depressing sentence I’ve ever written. The president gave an eloquent farewell to the nation in a live address in Chicago on Tuesday night, presumably accompanied by the sound of quiet weeping in […]
A Salt Lake City mother posted a photo of her teenager’s homework assignment on Facebook, and we are both appalled and not surprised at the same time. The “Purposes of Dating” lesson plan is part of Utah Education Network’s (UEN) Adult Roles and Financial Literacy curriculum. The “Girls Paper [sic]” […]
Remember the year 2000? We were worried about the Backstreet Boys’ career; the future of Geri Halliwell’s — and every other Spice Girl’s — career; and massive computer failures, international system failures, rogue missiles, and rolling blackouts, all courtesy of Y2K, some overhyped, bullshit computer bug. (Okay, okay; maybe the first two were […]
It’s something no parent wants to ever hear: that their child has a life-threatening illness for which there is no help or cure. But it’s something Robin Colleen had to face when she learned at her 21-week ultrasound appointment that her unborn daughter, Grace, had a terminal disease that offered her […]
I often say I’m an 18-year-old trapped in an 80-year-old’s body. On the plus side, I have the spirit of a young one. I still love the music the kids are listening to these days (never mind the fact that I say things like “kids” and “these days” in the […]
What’s black and white and “read” all over? A newspaper. But also my mascara-stained face and bloodshot eyes the morning after a long night of guzzling wine whilst binge-watching every episode of Law and Order: SVU since its conception. You’d think rolling into work or a mandatory social gathering looking like […]