Paige Turner / TikTok One mom on TikTok, Paige Turner, is pointing out yet another glaring injustice between men and women. She is seriously the queen of these eye-opening (and quite frankly depressing) double standards that often occur in marriage. In one of her latest videos, Paige points out something called “the leisure gap” which basically is a large variance of how men spend their downtime versus how women spend their downtime. The concept came while she was at a kid’s birthday party. While chatting, her friend noted how annoyed she was that her husband got to be home alone...
Hear Me Out: 'The Muppet Christmas Carol' Is The Perfect Holiday Movie
Buena Vista Pictures Distribution The ideal holiday movie has three essential features. It should take place during the season (obviously), convey the importance of togetherness and generosity, and be light and fun to watch for an audience of all ages. A bonus is if the movie has festive but non-saccharine music. There is one film that fits this bill, and I rewatch it every year: The Muppet Christmas Carol. Released in 1992, the same year my grandmother gave me the VHS, director Brian Henson’s Muppet version of Charles Dickens’ 1843 novella hews to the original work’s plot and themes, while...
My Son’s Chrismukkah Guilt
As soon as he was old enough to form a sentence, my son, Cole, started asking for a Christmas tree. This might seem like a no-brainer request if you celebrate Christmas every year, but we’re Jewish and our December decorations usually consist of an old brass menorah and a small blue and white Happy Hanukkah sign. Cole’s early pleas presented a dilemma: Do we go full Chrismukkah like Adam Brody’s character in The O.C., or do we stick to the ancient script? If you’re not familiar with Chrismukkah, it’s exactly what it sounds like — you mix and match Christmas...
Why Are My Eyelashes Falling Out? A Derm Explains The Possible Causes
Catherine Falls Commercial/Moment/Getty Images Hair loss is just another wonderful milestone in aging (except chin hairs, which seem to multiply every year because life is unfair). Along with that thinning around your temples, you might notice you’re losing more eyelashes than usual too. If you catch yourself asking, “why are my eyelashes falling out all of a sudden?”, just know it could be a totally normal batch of hairs whose time has come, and more will regrow. Or, there could be some other factors to blame, like an expired tube of mascara. Why are my eyelashes falling out all of...