It was my last night on vacation, and I was absent-mindedly swiping through Bumble while I enjoyed dinner solo at a local market. Unexpectedly, one profile caught my attention. I first noticed how he fit my physical type: people who look like brown Jesus (I’m pansexual and date folks of any gender). He was a...
Johner Images/Getty It’s noon, and I just woke up. Again. I’m sure some people would see this tidbit and scoff or judge. Well, this message is for you. As a mom who works and goes to school full-time, who barely has a "village" but is doing the best I can, this is what my life...
Warner Bros. Television I’m watching Gilmore Girls for the 100th time. On the screen, fast-talking mom Lorelai manically asks her 16-year-old daughter Rory to join her on an impromptu road trip the night before her wedding. Confused, responsible Rory demands why as Lorelai dodges questions before breaking down and admitting she can’t marry Max. Lorelai’s...
Natalia Lebedinskaia/Getty Images Even before I had a baby, I heard the horror stories of school lunch judgment. Notes home from teachers to parents telling them not to send certain foods in lunch boxes. Entire schools banning specific lunch items. It left me annoyed and indignant. But I didn’t fully feel the rage of those...