by Liz Gumbinner | Uncategorized
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! – Emma Lazarus After yesterday’s racist, hateful, and decidedly non-presidential presidential “shithole” characterization of immigrants to America from...
by Kate Etue | Books for Kids
This is my favorite recurring post every year on Cool Mom Picks, in which we collect all the best children’s books of 2017 lists from all over the internet — from big publications like the New York Times to our favorite indie bloggers with great taste in...
by Caroline Siegrist | Uncategorized
We’ve found the perfect keepsake to encapsulate the frothy, dizzying wonder of that first Christmas with baby: in our holiday gift list of special gift ideas for baby’s first Christmas, we shared this baby memories keepsake ornament from Milestone World....
by Liz Gumbinner | Beauty + Cosmetics
I can’t be the only one seeing Glossier ads all over my Facebook feed. Those videos of dewey-skinned young lovelies applying their skincare products and popular lip balms were too much for this beauty product fan to resist! So in our latest installment of Damn...
by Liz Gumbinner | Doing Good, Tips + Tricks
This has been a brutal month with consecutive natural disasters, many right in the contiguous US or close to home, and our hearts are so heavy. There’s Hurricane Harvey’s devastation in Texas, Hurricane Irma pounding Florida and the Virgin Islands, and now...
by Kate Etue | Kids, Entertainment + Media
If your family is like mine, summer nights are more often Netflix and chill (like, actually chilling, not a euphemism) than theater and $7 snacks. So, I thought I’d look ahead to the next month and round up what’s new on Netflix for families in August so...
by Liz Gumbinner | Spawned Podcast
This week, we are talking about the importance of curious kids — how to raise them, how to keep them that way. And there’s no better person to join us for this chat and answer our questions than Molly Bloom of Brains On, the popular science podcast from...
by Lisa Barnes | Beauty + Cosmetics
We’re so glad you’ve all been loving our Damn You, Social Media Ads review series, in which we purchase products from those ads flooding our social feeds, then test them out just for you. Today, we’ve got the honest scoop on Function of Beauty custom...
by Kate Etue | Health, Fitness + Wellbeing
I’m coming up on my 25thish anniversary of my first visit from Aunt Flo. And over that those 2.5 decades, I’ve had the same exact routine every month: tampons and pads. I wasn’t necessarily looking to spice things up in that department, but when I...
