It’s that time of year! Your aunt is asking what the kids want for the holidays, the kids are dropping hints or outright requests every five seconds, and you are looking around at your house filled with junk that goes ignored 80% of the time and wondering why you are thinking about getting a seasonal job to cover everyone’s wish list. It goes without saying that not one person has asked or will ask what Mom wants for Christmas. Three days before Christmas, it will occur to so

At your house, the Elf on the Shelf has possibly made their first appearance, dangling precipitously from the chandelier or hiding in plain sight on the mantel or in a bath of mini-marshmallows. At my house, pumpkins are still adorning the porch, and likely will for some time. It’s fine. Sometime in the next five weeks, it will all get done. The wrapping, finding, hiding of gifts. The delivery of unwrapped adopt-a-family gifts and toys for tots. The errands and obligations. T

All the feels after the 10 minute version of All Too Well *plus* the short film has the whole world rebreaking their own hearts by reliving every late teens/early 20s breakup when we all thought we knew everything and of course we knew nothing. We can still feel the knowinglessness all these years later. If you have a teenage girl in your life, just memorize every word and even let the young kids sing the “Fuck the Patriarchy” part out loud without giving them a look and they

My forever wedding date (I literally do not ever refer to my husband that way but it is kind of cute) and I celebrated the new marriage of close work friends of mine this weekend. We ourselves are a few weeks away from our 18th wedding anniversary and celebrating with this adorable couple and their family - both blood and chosen, as the officiant said - was simply joyful. There are years where you feel like all you do is go to weddings and related events - showers, bacheloret