If you've ever flown on Southwest airlines, then you know about their innovative and unique seating system. The way it works is you check in online for your flight exactly 24 hours before takeoff, and based on how fast your clicker finger is, you get assigned a letter and a number. A1-60 is the best, [...]
The funny thing about pregnancy and childbirth is that you spend SO LONG waiting for your baby to be born - and then as soon as you go into labor time somehow shifts into hyper-speed and suddenly you're home from the hospital with a newborn and a toddler and your husband is back to work [...]
The next person to win Powerball is going to win 1.3 BILLION (or more) dollars. Yes, billion. As in, the next biggest number after a million that most people don't really understand, as evidenced by this meme going around Facebook right now. I don't know who Philipe Andolini is, but he is most certainly not [...]
It's the first second week of January, which means it's time to quit coffee for a week or two, pay for a gym membership and make a list of things that need to be cleaned in my house. Of course I'm not actually going to do any of those things, but its the time of year where [...]
As November comes to a close, I'd like to take a moment to reflect on how quickly the Internet has managed to turn the season of giving, gratitude and graciousness into a shit-storm of pissed off, privileged angry people. If you haven't already found something to be offended by this year (gender neutral kids toys, gay [...]
As a person who has traveled quite a bit in their lifetime, I'm pretty familiar with what people in other countries think about Americans. Sometimes it's adoration, like the schoolgirls I met in Japan. Sometimes it's curiosity, like the teenage soccer team I kicked around with in Ecuador. But mostly it's anger, or worse, pity. [...]
I HATE Fantasy Football. I hate it. Seriously, I wish it would crawl into a hole and die a slow painful death by being forced to watch 17 football games at once until the end of time. Now before all the haters start lining up to punch me in the throat, let me just make it clear [...]
Earlier this week it was Dan and my 3rd wedding anniversary. We commemorated the day by waking up, grabbing our cell phones to scroll Facebook, and then saying to each other - "oh look, today is our anniversary...according to Facebook anyway." Trust me, it was really romantic. This is the space I had originally reserved [...]
When you decide to have a second kid, you (hopefully) think through the obvious expenses involved. Maternity leave (10 weeks at about $4000), hospital bills (baby #1 was $8,000 out of pocket), daycare ($300/month for 2 days a week), diapers ($100 a month), wine ($5 a box) - catching puke with your bare hands (priceless). Sorry, I [...]
Oh Baby Richards 