The Grip of Artificial Chaos

So, everyone seems to be freaking out about how the new Burger King Halloween Whopper, with the black bun is turning their poop green.  I don't really feel the need to link any articles here, you can just google it.  

Anyway, seeing all of the articles about neon...

Political season is in full swing. Which is crazy, since we're still 14 months out from the actual Presidential election in 2016. But with a crowded GOP field and an interesting fight shaping up for the Democrats, we're being inundated with political news. 

I'm not her...

I've been thinking a lot about something that has been sort of tickling the back of my brain for about a week or so.  It's not a huge thing, but maybe it is, and that's why it's been with me.  It's a simple sentence, so often seen on the Book of Faces comments and the...

So recently, Target Stores announced that they would be removing the gender labels from their toys section and their children's bedding.  So, effectively there will no longer be a boys section of toys that includes science based toys, dinosaurs, cars, trucks, play-doh...

One of the memories I have that has never left me is from 8th grade.

I was wearing a t-shirt dress. It was a bona fide Ralph Lauren (polo insignia on the left chest and everything) light purple t-shirt dress with yellow pin striping. Imagine a polo shirt, only really l...

If you're not living under a rock, you're aware of the horrifying events that happened in Charleston, SC, when a white man, hoping to start a race war, gunned down 9 black parishioners in an historic black church.  Google it if you're not familiar.

In the aftermath of...

I had started to write some thoughts on the shooting in Charleston, but then I started to question my own ability adequately write about that particular horror. Instead, I started following my brain down a different path. I think one of the best pieces I've seen on the...

Dear Coach,

We love you. We do.  You're a great gym teacher. Our kid loves the games you organize and the fun things you've done in the name of physical education. However, something's been troubling me for a while now, so I have to get this off of my chest....

This has been an interesting week for me.  Two stories have really caught my eye.  One is of the Josh Duggar story about alleged child sexual assault and the other is about a kid in Canada who has plead guilty to a number of offenses, including swatting* (mostly) femal...

So, obviously, in raising a daughter, I think constantly about the messages she's getting from us as her parents, from media, from her friends, from society.  I know that at some point I will have to have the "this is how you try not to get raped" conversation with he...