My name is Sharon Waugh and I run travel humor blog The Sharonicles. In my recent tongue-in-cheek blog post, I suggested that practicing travel poses is one way for travel-obsessed people to cope with lockdown and the current travel restrictions. Since then, I have been sharing my own attempts to recreate the lockdown version clichéd
Life would be much simpler yet more exciting at the same time if things worked just like in our favorite movies. The good guys would always save the day at the last minute. Adventures of a lifetime could happen at any moment. And your soulmate could be just around the corner. Alas! That’s not how
The Facebook group Dogspotting Society is an absolute gem. A true dog lovers paradise. It has over 950,000 members posting all kinds of wholesome dog-related content; from pics of a policeman taking selfies with his service dog to snaps of a pooch who refuses to take his owners’ wedding seriously, it’s the stuff you pay
As the news of the virus starting making the media, with all the uncertainty, fewer people were adopting pets and adoption events all around the world were canceled due to social distancing efforts. It didn’t take long before shelters were absolutely swamped with a tremendous number of pets. After learning about this horrible effect from
We all have that friend who pollutes our Facebook or Instagram feed. Now the actual toxic waste they spill might differ, but whether it’s cringy boomer comics or their very, very amateur nature photos, even the most mundane posts can become poisonous in huge amounts. I usually try to distance myself from these people without
Archimedes’ fourth law says that cats plus the Internet equals comedy squared. It’s as simple as that. You capture a kitty — it doesn’t matter if it’s skinny, thicc, fluffy or sleepy — in a humorous scenario, upload the photo to social media, and voila, you’re disrupting the status quo of the online world; even
Tom Schruben lives in Kensington, Maryland, a suburb of Washington DC with his wife Ann and their youngest daughter Darcy. He’s 62 years old and does consulting on environmental engineering. And he’s also the symbol of his neighborhood. You see, when the pandemic hit, like with most of the country, the burden of threat and
Those who have siblings will agree—they’re some of the best people in the world. They’re usually our first best friends, partners in crime, and co-conspirators. Brothers and sisters can have huge impacts on our lives, friendships, even mental and physical health. All in all, it’s pretty awesome to have a sibling. However… the same people
There are dozens and dozens of coronavirus conspiracy theories floating around on the internet. From theories like 5G causing the illness and speculations that coronavirus vaccines would have Illuminati microchips in them to theories about how some movies supposedly predicted the virus before it spread. Case in point, some people thought that the 2011 movie
No matter how good our intentions, no matter how steady our hands, eventually we’ll take a bad nature photo. Professional wildlife photographers aren’t immune to making mistakes, so neither are we. Fortunately, crappy wildlife photos shouldn’t be something that we ought to be embarrassed about—they ought to be celebrated! And the perfect place for that
While space exploration is all fine and dandy, and things like SpaceX’s recent rocket launch with people on board is a huge achievement worth celebrating, some people are reminding us that there is still a lot left to learn here on Earth. Humanity has really only discovered 5% of our oceans, and there is a
It’s only natural that police all over the US are going through some hard times amidst the Black Lives Matter protests that sprung up after George Floyd was killed by police during an arrest in Minneapolis. Furthermore, violent police response during the protests has been a massive topic nowadays as well. In light of these
