Um that's not casual

Everybody wants to be able to return home to a lovely house with a white picket fence, a few children, and possibly a cute dog. However, nobody informs you about the true costs of living in a tiny town. Sure, there are a lot of things that I wouldn't trade for the world. I mean, I love that my neighbors are kind, that the bus drivers know me by name, that my kids can ride their bikes and walk to school without a care in the world, and that all of my friends are approximately five to ten minutes…

Don't get caught out

I'll keep you my dirty little secret

I've watched enough gender reveal party videos to know that some parents are super particular about the sex of their baby. This desire for a boy or a girl doesn't always come from a nefarious place. Sometimes you build up an idea in your head about who your baby is going to be, and when the biological forces at be don't conform to that expectation, you're a little upset. There's truly nothing wrong with that. However, if you act angry or indignant towards your partner because you didn't get the…

Family secrets can range from being horribly painful to being the juiciest gossip ever concocted . I definitely don't want anyone to have to deal with the trauma of finding out their father has a secret family or their aunt committed vehicular manslaughter in 1992. However, these stories are interesting for a reason. We don't tend to advertise our family's most heinous classified deeds. There's a sense of relief when you learn the family secrets because it can explain many things that were prev…

These are wild

It ain't all glitz and glamor

Behind the scenes

Take that one to the grave

Look for the light

Start taking notes

How the 1% lives

“We could make some serious money if we had a reality TV show about this.”

It ain't pretty