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The Truth About Holiday Diets
I laugh every time someone suggests that they should have a healthy Thanksgiving or Christmas Dinner and do away with all the traditional family fair. Why? Because the implication behind that is if on these two days of the year, they serve or eat Tofurkey, kale salad, and angel food cake, that...
My 10 Favorite Movie Fights and Battles
Everyone has their own opinion on what constitutes as the best of the best when it comes to movie fights and battles, but for my list, I chose fights that had something special or unique to them, that typically had the viewers heavily invested in the outcome of the fights, and that were...
Ladies, Being In a Better Relationship Starts with You!
Ladies, sometimes we get caught up in this idea that our boyfriends and husbands are 100% THE PROBLEM in our relationship. Everything they do, or say, is of course wrong in the same way men sometimes feel that way about women, but that's rarely if ever true. Being in a healthy balanced...
5 Signs You Are Becoming A More Mature Adult
When you are say, below the age of 25, I am a firm believer in living in your freedom. Freedom from heavy responsibilities, freedom to explore wildly, freedom to take your life in a million different directions, freedom for some level of immaturity. I think everyone should experience that a bit...
8 Tips For Taking Better Thanksgiving Family Photos
As the holidays roll around, many of us will be seeing family sometimes for the first time, or for the first time in a long time, and as such, we want to capture some good photos of them while they are here with us. Most family photos you see are the same old, same old...big group, hastily...
10 Follow-Up Questions About "The Purge"
How would the Purge actually work in reality because I've got a lot of follow up questions to the rules below? The rules: The Purge is a 12 hour period from 7pm to 7am during which all previously criminal activity is now legal. The emergency services (police, EMTs, etc.) are suspended. The only...
Love Isn't Guaranteed Just Because You Want It
Most of us grew up with the notion that there was one day going to be some version of prince charming or the vision of a princess out there for us. You know, first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the baby in the baby carriage...but life, and love, as we come to understand as adults,...
Thanksgiving Dinner For The Beginner
If this is your year to finally take a crack at hosting your first Thanksgiving dinner, congratulations. Taking on this task is no easy feat, but it can be done. Don't panic, don't freak out, all you need is...let's be honest...a lot of planning, and hopefully some help from a friend or family...
How NOT To Give Advice To Friends And Family
Sometimes giving unsolicited advice is not the best thing in the world to do when a friend or family member has a problem. Sometimes that advice comes from a hypocritical place; we tell them to do the same exact thing we are not doing in our own lives. Sometimes, we just want to hear ourselves...
10 More Things That Annoy Me About Movies
Here are ten more things that absolutely annoy me about movies. Again, just like in the first, I know they are fictional films so they can get away with anything apparently, but some things just make you scratch your head and go, really? How is that even possible? 1. Anything related to...
A Woman Answers 15 Baffling Questions Men Have About Women
*PLEASE NOTE: ONE WOMAN DOES NOT REPRESENT ALL WOMEN. THESE ARE MY OPINIONS. I'M AWARE YOU, YOUR GIRLFRIEND, SISTER, COUSIN, WHOMEVER MAY NOT THINK OR DO OR ANSWER THE SAME WAY, K. THANKS 1. Why does it take you so freaking long to get ready? Showering. Shaving...we are apparently supposed to be...
Deal With What You Have, Accept Who You Are!
I venture to say that there isn't a single one of us that hasn't spent a few minutes somewhere in our lives wishing we looked like, or perhaps even were another person. We imagine our lives would be so much better if we looked like the other person. We'd be richer, get more guys/girls, live the...
What Happens In Group (Fiction)
I thought I would share a short story I'm writing. Definitely deals with adult subject matter. Constructive criticism/comments would be helpful. The short version of my life is that I was a happily married man. Wife. One kid. Kid got depressed. Killed himself. Wife got depressed. Left me or...
Advocating for Health is Offensive Now?
Are we really at a point in this country where we are considered some of the unhealthiest people on the planet, where rather than address our issues as a nation and try and support and help one another towards healthier lifestyles, we're more offended by someone changing up our kids school lunch...
12 Things That Annoy Me About Movies
I know fictional movies are meant to be fictional and things aren't meant to match up as they do in reality, but there are just moments in movies that bug me because of the reality of what they are doing or how it's being done. 1. When the driver in a movie is going along and they turn to talk...
When You're Searching for Quality Relationships...
There are a million advice sites on how to get into a short term relationship or develop a relationship where you and your partner, if you can even call it that, are no more than f--k buddies, but what if you are beyond that stage in your life and you are looking for something more permanent,...
Some of the Most Annoying Parts of Women's Clothing
There are just some things about fashion that are soooo annoying...and yet we continue to wear them as if they aren't. Beauty is pain they say. And they're right! 1. Sequin dresses and tops Hello sequin dress or top, meet armpit. Yes, let's take sandpaper and just rub it into our armpit all...
Coolest Group Halloween Costumes
If you have no idea what to go as for Halloween, why not try conscripting your friends to do a group costume.You can be really elaborate in your dedication to a theme, or go basic with nothing more than a few t-shirts and a few props. Group costumes are fun for a couple of reasons. They work...
My 3 Terrifying Near-Death Experiences
My first near death experience, the way my dad tells it, happened when I was five years old. He, my brother, and myself were on our way to the store, when BOOM! this lady in a small white car in her own world not thinking about the red light in front of her violently T-boned our car spinning it...
How To Deal with TOXIC Family Members
https://www.youtube.com/embed/TUCUsNx1HTs You may have done pretty well for yourself all year avoiding certain family functions, living in another state or country from them, or not picking up the phone, but now that the holidays are on approach, you may find yourself having to deal with toxic...
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