Okay. We admit it. Mondays kinda suck. So to make your Monday less sucky, check out this video. It’ll make you laugh. It’ll make you think. Not bad for a Monday.

By RTF Staff Writer Shannon Meiers

It was almost midnight. I should have gone to bed over an hour ago. But I couldn’t.  The draw of the shiny blue screen was too much to bear. My red-rimmed eyes darted to the battery indicator on my laptop. 10%. Good. Time for one more status update. Even as I was typing, I happened to glance over at the list of my online friends. Uh oh. My dad was online. This wasn’t good. Maybe he hadn’t seen me. I still had time to escape the horror that was The Parent Wrath. I was going to lose cooperative-child points for sure.

My mind going a mile a minute as I attempted to direct the cursor over the log-out button. But it was not to be. My cursor froze at that precise moment and so did my breathing as I realized I had a new chat message. From my dad. (more…)

By RTF Editor Abbie Miller

It all went down one day in my local Starbucks, where I’d gone after class for a few hours of homework, studying, writing, and mindless Facebook surfing.

As I waited for my laptop to come out of hibernation mode, I looked around at my fellow caffeine worshippers. It was a full house that day, your typical mixture of coffee shop types; a couple businessmen, a young mom with kids in tow, a college study group. And of course, a rather cute guy over at the corner table.

*Note to self: do not spill your drink or fall out of your chair at any point during this evening.*

I gave the space bar a couple of good whacks to get things going, and soon my desktop screen popped up. As I clicked to go to my school website and check my email, a sudden obnoxious digital voice broke the polite semi-quiet of the coffee shop…  (more…)

Happy Retro Day!! To go with our current them of “back to school”, we decided to re-post this great story from Halee about her hilarious high school debacle. Enjoy!

By RTF Editor Halee Matthews

It was a rite of passage – a mean, painful initiation. Nearly every person at my high school suffered through it at some point… except me. I managed to dodge it until the end of my junior year, when it found me in the place where the stairs lie in wait for their next victim. (more…)

By RTF Editor B.J. Hamrick

It’s not really a habit for many people in our generation, but I realize that there are some folks out there who enjoy canning. Peaches, pears, figs – you name it. So when I read recently about a man who keeps navel fluff in a jar, I assumed the article was referring to canned oranges… if there is such a thing.

Turns out the words “navel fluff” are actually the Australian way of saying “belly-button lint”. (See? Suddenly I’m bi-lingual.) And not only does the man have one jar full of belly-button lint – multiply that by three. (more…)

I had the awesome opportunity to see Tim Hawkins last weekend, and he is an awesome comedian. So I thought I’d share a bit of his humor with you because everyone could use a good laugh. Enjoy! ~ Halee  (P.S. To learn more about Tim Hawkins or find out when he’s going to be at a location near you, click here. )

Happy Retro Day! This is for all of you who have or had braces. (I’m a post-braces kid too. Never been so happy to get rid of something- 2 years without popcorn is an eternity!) I love the way Catey turned her not-so-great orthodontist appointment into a hilarious story. Enjoy! ~ Halee

by RTF Staff Writer Catey Yuen

So, I’ve had braces for almost the 18-month slot they allotted me (and if I have to go a day over, I think I will go mad).

Let me tell you a little bit about my braces experience. I HATE THEM.

I am a rule keeper as it comes to a lot of things. I got this nine-page long braces care sheet when I first got braces and on that nine-page long list sheet was this million-item list titled: THINGS YOU SHOULD NOT EAT WITH BRACES.

So I didn’t eat the stuff on there.

My friends aren’t really rule keepers. They saw THINGS YOU SHOULD NOT EAT WITH BRACES and read it as THINGS THAT YOUR ORTHODONTIST WOULDN’T LIKE YOU TO EAT WITH BRACES BUT YOU CAN STILL EAT ANYWAY. (more…)

By RTF Editor B.J. Hamrick

One of my friends recently called my boy and I “green”. I wasn’t sure if she meant we were naïve… or eco-friendly. Of course those two labels are synonymous in our small town, where recycling places you in the same gossip category as an eco-terrorist.

I have to admit – my boy and I are slightly on the green side. We’re not obsessed with it, but we try to do things like wash our tin foil, scrub our cat litter, and fertilize our garden with our own septic system. Just kidding about the tin foil. (more…)