Stock Photos Are Terrible at Depicting Illness, Mental or Physical

Stock photos are ubiquitous—and infamous. The concepts are often laugh-out-loud absurd. The models are disproportionately white, not to mention atypically young, beautiful, and able-bodied. Outdated gender norms seem to be readily reinforced. Article after article has shown that stock photographs...

The Year in Push Alerts

It has been an exhausting, exasperating, anxious year. A year of relentless assault, as one news break after another pushed its way into our daily existence and found us where we live, interrupting family dinners and drinks with friends, errands and work, rough patches and best-laid plans. No...

A Weekend Getaway (Without Kids)

A Weekend Getaway (Without Kids)

Every year, Alex and I try to take a short trip alone — no noisy children allowed. 🙂 So, this past weekend, while my mom stayed with the boys, Alex and I went to Ocho Rios, Jamaica.… Read more The post A Weekend Getaway (Without Kids) appeared first on A Cup of Jo. Source:...