By Tracy Bennett For the last three years our family has raised 4H hogs for the county fair. What started out as a child activity has quickly become a much-anticipated family tradition. We are suburbanites who’ve graduated from bunny to barnyard, and we are a healthier, happier family for it. My friends tease me about…
What to Expect When You’re Eclipsing: A Practical Guide
By Sarah Caughron First thing is first – what is actually happening on August 21, 2017? {You can find lots of great online resources – many that I’ve linked in the body of this post – that go into great detail, but for the purposes of not writing a textbook, I will keep my explanation…
Why I’m an Unapologetic, Angry Woman Right Now, and THAT’S OK
If there were ever a time in modern America when women needed a battle cry to unite us, it’s now. Under this presidency. In 2017. We are angry as we we watch the clock on our reproductive rights roll backwards. We are angry as our country’s elected leader makes a joke out of us. We…
New Motherhood and Social Media—A Bad Combo?
By Quenby Schuyler I would wager to say that just about anyone in any type of demographic has a love-hate relationship with social media. It is the quickest way to connect, and yet can oftentimes leave us feeling the most disconnected we have ever felt. From my own experience as a mother of a two-year-old, and…
Moms Do the Gross Things
By Heather Sadlemire We were sitting in the backyard on one of the first warm June nights when my 3-year-old presented me my “dinner” of plastic eggs and a washed out mold of spaghetti. Both were fresh out of the shed, which was haphazardly closed up over winter, so they were covered with a thin…
I’ve Been Looking at the Shoe Section at Justice for 15 Minutes and I Want My Life Back
It’s back-to-school season, and you know what that means: new clothes for kids to show off to their classmates–classmates named Renfro, or Mary-Charlie, or Cambleton, or some shit. God, I hate these stupid modern children’s names. And do you know what I’ve found through hours of useless internet research? Kids’ clothes this year are just as ridiculous…
Turn Around, Bright Eyes, Because Bonnie Tyler Will Sing “Total Eclipse” Live During the Total Eclipse
Unless you live under a rock, you know that on August 21st, America will experience its first total solar eclipse since 1979. If you think that’s awesome, get this: Royal Caribbean will have a special “total eclipse” themed cruise, with the boat positioned in an optimal viewing spot. And turn around, bright eyes, because there’s more! What better…
‘Poo Bomber,’ Woman Who Shoplifts and Poops in Stores, Baffles Police
Just when you thought the world’s events couldn’t get any stranger, Australian news outlets are reporting several incidents that have landed one woman, whose name has not been released and is only known as the “Poo Bomber,” in hot water. According to The Daily Telegraph and Yahoo News, the 42-year-old Australian woman allegedly visits stores,…
How Government Waiting Rooms Can Drive Anyone to the Brink of Insanity
By Colleen McCardell of Are We There Yet? The room was sweltering. A single metal fan in the corner turned slowly, barely moving the air. My skirt stuck to me and my thighs slipped on the hard plastic chair, covered in sweat, the crack in the middle of the seat pinching my legs every time…
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