Twenty years ago, Paramount Pictures released Mean Girls, the story of Cady Heron, the new girl in high school who recently moved back to the States after being home schooled in Africa. Immediately embraced by misfits Janis and Damian, Cady finds herself drawn in by the popular clique led by…
Almost everyone has heard (or used) the expression that something was like watching a trainwreck. It’s something embarrassing or terrible, but you can’t seem to make yourself look away. I’ve used the expression myself, and I have never, for the life of me, been able to explain the appeal. Human…
When I was a toddler, Mommy and Me groups weren’t a formal thing. In a time when most moms didn’t work outside the home, neighborhood moms organically came together with their kids. Once we started school, the moms on our street still continued to get together for coffee and gossip…
