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What’s Up With DEI?

Let’s start with this. Our corner of the internet is a place to laugh, but it’s also a safe space to get curious and learn. Currently, there is a hot button issue in our nation around the rollback of Diversity,…

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Parenting Isn’t About You

When we wrote our book Everybody Fights, So Why Not Get Better At It we talked about magic words in a relationship. There are phrases you can say during discussions or arguments that help bring down the temperature or help…

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We’re Going All In

Historically, around the second week in January, I have a freakout. This has gotten so predictable that I had to get my 2025 calendar early so I could write the words “don’t freak out” right around now. See, we’ve been…

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Do What Matters

I will admit something: I get hit with bursts of energy where I NEED to organize my life and schedule. I’ll buy a new planner, and color-code my life. Then, inevitably a week later, I get too busy to follow…

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Being A Hallmark Movie Writer

If you’ve watched us for a while, you know that we’ve made some very fun parodies about Hallmark holiday movies. It’s always a high-powered executive who comes back to their quaint hometown, falls in love, and starts a new chapter.…

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Missing Boring Elections

Our daughter in high school is taking a class on American Government right now (which is pretty exciting during a presidential election.) She has become interested in watching old clips of debates from previous elections. (Think Reagan/Carter or Bush/Clinton eras…)…

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Life Beyond Your Phone

When Penn and I were on The Amazing Race, they took away our phones, tablets, laptops… anything we could use to access the outside world or the internet. If we had a question, we couldn’t Google it to get the…

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Things That Mean More To Me At 50

This past month, I turned 50 years old. It’s a number that I feel like I am at times, and at others, I definitely do not. There’s a lot of things that I don’t really care about as much as…

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Panic Attacks, Hurricanes, & An Amazing College Kid

The last two weeks have been a lot in the Holderness house. First, Hurricane Helene devastated the western part of North Carolina, where some of Penn’s family still lives. So many people lost their lives and whole towns were wiped…

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Building Male Friendships

Penn and I fall into gender stereotypes when it comes to friendships. I get deep quickly with fewer friends, and Penn has more surface-level friendships with a lot of people. There are so many examples of deep, vulnerable female relationships…

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