Sportswriter Craig Calcaterra found a map that his 16-year-old daughter Anna was working on and thought it was too incredible not to share. The map featured such hits as Vermont and New Hampshire becoming one state, Canada being bisected by Texas, Minnesota being renamed East Dakota, and Chile becoming “Long Chile, removing the entire west […] More
In an Instagram post, one 31-year-old mother and mommy influencer, Jessica Hood, shares a vulnerable story of how she fears showing her husband how she looks naked. In fact, she hasn’t — for six whole years. Hood says that they only have sex in the dark and that he’s not allowed to touch her stomach. […] More
Being a mom is tough, weird, and unpredictable. And it’s not always easy to admit all of that, or to communicate the wacky, emotional, difficult nuances of day-to-day mom life. So when one mom, Casey Huff, posted to both Facebook and Instagram about the “27 things I wish I could go back and tell myself […] More
Dancer Genea Sky went viral recently for a very scary reason. She was working at a Texas club XTC Cabaret and performing on the two-story pole when she fell. A person in the audience filmed a video of the incident, where Genea fell a total of 15 feet and seemed to be OK when she […] More
The New Hampshire Democratic primary took place on Tuesday, and while the final results were less confusing than the Iowa Caucus results (which seem to have gone through a blender), people were still baffled by the outcomes. For one, Bernie Sanders won the popular vote but ended up with the same number of delegates as […] More
When you were a kid, do you remember how different things were? Kids could ride their bikes all over town without helmets, no one used seatbelts, and our parents pretty much all smoked around us. And if you were a baby in the 1960s, things were also pretty different—because you basically were starved out by […] More
Late-night host Jimmy Fallon asked his fans to send their best “weird or embarrassing” wedding stories for the show under the hashtag #WeddingFail on Monday and people responded with gusto. Thousands of people have already responded, many with home videos showing the exact moment the most special day of their lives went off the rails. […] More
Sometimes being a woman in public feels like an extreme sport, or a matter of life and death. Having lived with it a long time, I’ve personally become a bit numb to the potential dangers of being a woman alone. We simultaneously think about those dangers and compartmentalize them, moving through life with a constant […] More
A couple with a pecan farm in Oklahoma have lost $32,000 from President Donald Trump’s multiple, ongoing trade wars. The couple recently spoke to RawStory under pseudonyms Mr. and Mrs. Smith to protect their identities. The whole idea of Trump's tariffs was to bankrupt the small farmers so the corporate farms could buy the land […] More
What it means to wear or not wear makeup has meant a lot of different things over the last few decades. For a while, you had to wear makeup if you were a woman. Then, eschewing makeup was a feminist act. Soon after that, embracing make up FOR YOURSELF became the empowering thing to do. […] More
Anyone who gets their period knows that maintaining your hygiene level during that time can cost a lot of money. While reusable menstrual cups have become more mainstream, they aren’t a viable alternative to pads or tampons for many people and require a more significant upfront investment in most cases. A lack of access to […] More
Emerson the black lab mix got a rough start to life, contracting the canine parvovirus as a small puppy and having a number of seizures. While he was recovering, the good people of the canine rescue organization NRF Maine noticed that he couldn’t hear the way he should. Regardless, Emerson was a sweet and adorable […] More
