A mom has shared the unexpected way she gets her daughters to stop bickering.  Taking to TikTok, Maggie revealed her two girls, aged 13 and nine, “fight like cats and dogs. Piss and fire. Oil and water.” “Which is normal for their age,” she added. “I have to remind myself that it’s normal.” But…

DEAR ABBY: I am a 50-year-old single mom who is extremely close with my 20-year-old daughter, who is away at college. I haven’t dated for 12 years, partly because I did not want distractions from parenting.  Recently, a young man has contacted me for a casual relationship. These are my…

Move over, Mr. Right — Gen Z gals are looking for Mr. Fix-It. Savvy single ladies in NYC and beyond are treating the dating app Hinge like a handyman service —updating their profiles on the trendy pair-off platform to say they can be “won over” by a man who can help…

As a kid, my mom’s favorite phrase was “because no means no.” I can’t begin to explain how frustrating that was, especially when there was no reason why it was a no. Just… no. End of discussion. Now that I’m a mom myself, I’ve caught those exact words slipping out of my own mouth.  The mom…

Is this the start of Goo York City? UK scientists have discovered a massive “blob” of rock underneath the Appalachian mountains that’s slowly oozing its way toward New York City, per a slimy new study published in the journal Geology. “This thermal upwelling has long been a puzzling feature of…

Move over, Mickey Mouse. Tripadvisor has named the top amusement park in the U.S. — and it’s not in Disney or Universal. In its 2025 Travelers’ Choice Best of the Best Awards this week, Dollywood was named No. 1 in the Amusement & Water Parks category. The Appalachian-themed park co-founded…

Sticks and stones can hurt — but the wrong words can blow up your marriage before you can spit out, “You’re overreacting.”  The good news? There’s a four-word phrase that can supposedly stop a fight before it starts — or keep you from snapping at your sweetie. According to writer…

When one wife gave her husband the task of picking out their bedroom TV — she was thinking slim and chic. He was thinking IMAX. “I left my husband in charge of picking the TV for our master bedroom because I was tired of making decisions,” Lauryn Windham Franks wrote…

So little time. Tomorrow might be a shorter day — but you’ll barely be able to tell. Scientists say that Earth will spin a tad faster than usual on Tuesday — shortening the usual 24-hour day by 1.25 to 1.51 milliseconds. This prediction was made by the International Earth Rotation,…

These travelers certainly didn’t feel like celebrities. This past Saturday, a Celebrity Cruises ship packed with vacationers was left temporarily powerless after a significant electrical failure — causing it to drift off a southern Italian coast, according to CruiseMapper.  The incident occurred on Saturday, August 2, when the Celebrity Constellation lost…