Lauren Beckham Falcone

1 week ago | wror.com | Lauren Beckham Falcone

Elementary school kids run from camera in corridor, close upMay is the boss level of parenting. You’ve slogged through the winter holidays, survived the stomach bugs of February, and limped through Spring Break, only to find yourself now—bewildered, and holding a bake sale sign-up sheet like it’s a subpoena. Field Day, Theme Week, Spring Concert, Art Shows, Teacher Appreciation Week (which lasts seven days but somehow requires 14 different Pinterest-level gift ideas).

1 week ago | wror.com | Lauren Beckham Falcone

There’s a new at-home test making the rounds. No, not another COVID test. This one checks if your brain is working. Which feels a bit aggressive, frankly. All you need is a ruler and a friend. Yes, you need a friend. So already, I’m in trouble. Here’s how it works: you sit in a chair like a civilized human, hand on a table, fingers poised like you're about to politely pinch a scone. Your friend holds a ruler vertically, zero at the bottom, just above your thumb. Then they drop it without warning.

2 weeks ago | wror.com | Lauren Beckham Falcone

Colorful celebration birthday cake with sugar sprinkles and colorful birthday candles against a background of defocused fairy lightsRejection hurts. But cake? Cake heals. So why not combine them? Enter the rejection cake—a frosted, floury hug for your bruised little ego. Got ghosted by grad school? Slice up that buttercream band-aid. Credit card declined again? That calls for chocolate ganache, friend.​Because let’s be honest.

2 weeks ago | wror.com | Lauren Beckham Falcone

Paper receipts are officially out to get us. Turns out, they’re loaded with a hormone-wrecking chemical called BPS — and just holding one for a few seconds can have “serious health consequences.”Oh, you thought you were just buying shampoo and a pack of gum? WRONG. You were signing up for a slow, chemically-induced death. Look, I’ve been suspicious of paper receipts forever. The weird, waxy feel? The toxic smell that somehow sticks to your fingers longer than fried fish?

3 weeks ago | wror.com | Lauren Beckham Falcone

Old electronic devices on a dark background. The concept of recycling and disposal of electronic wasteLet me start by saying this: I own a creative iPod Life Shuffle from, I kid you not, 1999. It’s basically a tiny fossil that once held my entire personality. I also still have every cell phone I’ve owned since 2003. Not in use. Not charged. Just… present. Like cursed artifacts in a museum no one visits. Do I have the chargers? Of course not. What do you think I am, organized?