“I don’t know how you mothers do it,” said the man watching me struggle to get my two, shall we say “energetic,” boys into the car.
“Mommy knows best.” This one I’ve heard said by everyone from teachers to doctors to other parents.
“Being a mom is one of the hardest jobs anyone can do,” I read in a post that went viral recently.
While these statements may come from different sources and were said in different contexts, they all carry good intentions of acknowledging, appreciating, or even just noticing my efforts and role as mother. Read More...
The last remaining Kemp Mill Music store closes Saturday after losing its lease, but one item isn't for sale: a battered cardboard cutout of go-go icon Chuck Brown.
Armando Cruz is turning out the lights on the once-ubiquitous regional chain that boasted more than 30 locations in the Washington metro area at its peak. He's held on to the Brown promotional cutout for years and once rejected a $500 offer for it. Read More...
Spaniards have so far escaped the scourge of European nationalism in this century, perhaps because they suffered so much from it in the last one. Spain’s far-right Vox party — macho, flag-waving, migrant-bashing, climate-change-denying and hostile to LGBTQ+ rights, abortion access and even government moves against gender violence — was widely expected to form part of a coalition government that would emerge from elections in July. Instead, voters turned off by the party’s extremism defied pre-election polls, slashed Vox’s representation in Spain’s parliament by more than 35 percent, and cast a majority of ballots almost equally for the governing liberal party of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and the opposition conservative party. Read More...
