By Julie Walthers of Ghost Editorial For Hanukkah/Christmas (or what I cleverly refer to as Chronikkah), my husband was thoughtful enough to buy me a monthly membership to Pure Barre. I have a love/hate relationship with these boutique workout classes. They are outrageously overpriced, promote a cult-like following, and generally […]
By Darla Halyk of NewWorldMom Perfection. The painstakingly intricate endeavor I cloak myself in. I wear it like a disease. It plagues me. I feel it turning my skin black, attacking my organs, my heart, my self-worth. I purchase my maladies as if they are packed on a grocery store […]
By Liz Petrone of lizpetrone.com This is why they don’t let me write wedding vows. It’s 3:00 AM, our bedroom, any night, and I hear a noise. “Nick, did you hear that?” I ask my sleeping husband, hoping that the noise was just a remnant of the dream I was […]
By Linda Hummel of Just Left Awkward, Suddenly Approaching Old I came to my obsession with Lin-Manuel Miranda much later than most people. I didn’t discover him until well after tickets to Hamilton had reached mortgage-payment levels. So I tried my best to catch up without actually ever seeing the […]
In the early 1940s, when nearly 16 million of our nation’s men went to war, the women of America stepped up to fill the jobs that had traditionally been held by men. Women worked with engineers, built planes, and yes, Rosie even riveted. In 2017 the men had their chance […]
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 […]
Senator Chris McDaniel (R) from Mississippi posted this to his Facebook account yesterday: This isn’t the first time I have seen this sort of sentiment from a man, whether he is a legislator or just some loudmouthed friend of a friend whose ignorant ramblings have made their way onto my […]
It’s a common plea I’ve seen come across my feed lately, and it is presented in some variation of the following: “Please stop posting your political beliefs. You’re not going to change anyone’s mind. You’re just preaching to the choir.” “I come to social media to escape the fighting and […]