Carmen R. Lawrence is an actress, writer, and artist living in North Carolina. In her spare time, she writes fiction novels and does a lot of travel writing. She likes dogs, music, video games, comic books, and craft beer.
We're all a bit too old to be keeping up with what Barbie is up to these days, right? Even when we were kids, we felt like we were too old for or too cool for Barbies... yet we played with them. Girls...
Sometimes, we take our cinema so seriously that we really need someone to come along and make fun of it, reminding us that "oh yeah, all of this imaginary crap isn't real anyways." So much of our mode...
We love our Walking Dead. Honestly, in a crowded room, someone could offhandedly mention or quote the franchise and it would spark a long conversation about the shambling corpses. There's just so much...
Sometimes, we all need a shrink. Unfortunately, there's a weird, negative stigma surrounding going to see a counselor, a psychologist, or a psychiatrist -- as if confessing we needed help organizing o...
Don't even try to deny it: everyone loves Disney movies. We don't care how tough or mature you are; everyone has a favorite. Whether it's something super sappy like Up! or something totally classic li...
If you ask some of the world's greatest actors, they'll honestly tell you that it's not too hard to act. As the famous Vaudevillian American actor George Burns once said, "Acting is all about honesty....
Out in the wild, you never know what's going to be for dinner. While humans have a more *ahem* sophisticated palate, most animals don't really care what they're eating; if it satiates the appetite and...
Just like it is sexy to see firefighters boldly and bravely saving helpless civilians, or to see knights in shining armor sweeping damsels in distress off their feet, everyone loves a good, sexy TV do...
Not everyone can rock a tank top. It takes a lot of work for us average, ordinary, everyday ladies to pull off a tank top with true success. Professional celebrities and media icons, who are busy livi...
These actresses spend so much time on the big screen impressing us, making us laugh and cry, getting us to trust them and relate to them. In a sense, we kind of fall in love with them. Literally! A ps...
In case you've been living under a rock for the past decade or so and don't know what Reddit is, it's this fairly simple online forum where people can go to talk about... anything! Cheats and secrets ...
Most adults with phobias inherited those deep-seated fears from negative experiences in their childhood. It could've been a dog barking at you when you were a mere baby, a sibling thinking it would be...
Hollywood is losing its touch. These days, when you take a trip to the movie theater, you're likely to see previews for movies you swear you've seen before. You can almost make a game out of it! "Let'...
Women that star professionally as WWE wrestlers, by nature, reveal a little too much. While guys get to be tossing and jumping about the ring in long pants, the women in the biz are usually scantily c...
In 2016, 963 people were shot and killed by United States police officers. So if you don't think there's a problem with police brutality, you probably have your head buried in the sand. Police brutali...
Ah, the 90s. A decade for abusing the denim fabric and terrible oversized hats. A decade filled with cartoons of talking animals, ones whose actual species still cause confusion and debate today. A de...
So... 2016 sucked. Maybe not for everyone, but for a lot of us. As a result, many of us had starry eyes as we approached the end of the crappy year and neared the start of 2017. We had such prospects,...
2010 was just a few years ago, wasn't it? No way, 7 years? It's been 7 whole years?! It all feels like just a while ago that Barack Obama became the first African-American president of the United Stat...
Oh, the 90s. What a time to be alive. If you're so young that all you have to reminisce on the iconic decade are rumors of the supposed end of the world, broken Tamagotchis passed down to you from old...
Throughout the course of the 1800s and 1900s, the human race discovered so much. Fingerprints weren't discovered as a viable way of identifying a human being or even an individualistic characteristic ...