Finding control where there is none Labor Day weekend stopped being “the last gasp of summer” for me once I started freelancing. After taking most of the summer off (whether intentionally or by default through a lack of work), I’d often reach the end of August in a low-key (or…

The beginning of the end and the beginning of the beginning This was going to be the summer when I got it all back. My discipline. My outside-the-house outfits. My social life. My friendships. Maybe I would even bring back a few of the traditions from all those previous summers…

We are neither red states nor blue states but the United States of normal goddamn people who like dogs Soon we the American people will be able to welcome two very good boys to the White House after four long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long…

‘This is anxiety, plain and simple — which, if you have anxiety, you know it’s anything but plain and simple’ — Before you even start with me, let me be very clear that until Marriage Story, the only thing I knew about Adam Driver was that some internet cats looked like him. And Star Wars something something I don’t know. I stopped watching Star Wars back when there was exactly one…

The good. The bad. The Ariana Grande perfume. Everything you didn’t know you needed for a sane drive with teens. — Illustration by Bene Rohlmann When you’re heading out on a road trip with adolescents, don’t forget to bring everything, including a little emotional baggage! Here is a sanity-saving checklist to get you through long drives with teens. ☐ Teenagers ☐ Travel mugs ☐ Travel attitudes, depending on what we’re talking about when we talk about “travel attitudes”

Parenting humor sites don’t die, they just abandon you for their friends Dear people, We all knew this time would come and come it has. We have decided to bring RAZED’s Terrorizing and Highly Inconsistent Reign of Terror™ to a close. But first! Here is our valentine to you: THE FINAL ISSUE: FAREWELL, F*CKERS!

We’re apparently reliable enough to raise the next generation, but not to articulate our own experiences — Jodi Kantor, The New York Times reporter who, along with Megan Twohey, broke the Harvey Weinstein story, spoke here in Vermont back in February. Of all the ground she covered, one anecdote in particular snagged my attention. …

Baa baa black sheep, Have you any wool? No sir, no sir, The millionaires and billionaires have it, sorry. Jack and Jill Went up Capitol Hill To fetch a pail of water. …

In this final installment of my three-part interview with Chris Monks, he plays favorites and that includes, of course, a list. Kimberly Harrington: I know you said you’re not writing short humor pieces anymore, but are there pieces on the site that you feel jealous of, that you wish you…