Everyone used to keep close tabs at their local Blockbuster video. You’d either wait until your favorite movies were released or just head over to peruse the countless shelves of VHS and DVDs. ‘Renting a movie’ was more often than not a fun experience, and a memorable part of some people’s childhoods. It was almost...

Penelope Wilson
The Hearty Soul Team
Penelope is a writer and health enthusiast with a B.Arts in Language Studies. She is a deeply spiritual person, a relationship expert, a nutrition freak, and a skin-care maverick.
The problems with vaping do not start and end with the explosion of the vaping devices which, while rare, have led to serious and fatal injuries [1]. As many know, thousands of vapers have been affected by vaping related illnesses or what is now known as EVALI (e-cigarette, or vaping, product use associated lung injury)....
That burger certainly rocked her world… or at the very least, sent her on a new path. 49-year-old Tammi Jonas from Eganstown, Victoria, Australia became a vegetarian at the age of 19 after reading Animal Liberation by Peter Singer. She maintained a strict vegetarian diet for ten years and through two pregnancies. When she was pregnant...
This may appear at first as an ordinary picture of men having a beer with a sick family member, but it’s so much more than that. Not everyone gets the opportunity to say a proper goodbye to a loved one before their passing. For many, the person in question may not be coherent enough to...
Divorce is a difficult and draining phase of life for anyone to pass through, but what’s even harder is learning to co-parent amicably after separating. The transition from couple to divorced co-parents is not always as seamless as we assume it to be. Endless negotiations, mediation, blurred lines about the future of the children and...
When we meet someone for the first time, we never know how things are going to play out with them. That first week, while we’re texting, calling and getting to know each other, happy hormones in our brains would make us think everything they do is cute. Although not everyone wants a long-term relationship/life partnership,...
In 2017, a black bear caught relaxing went viral when a lady photographed him sitting on a discarded couch at a dump, like someone who had just come back from a long day at work and needed to catch a break [1]. The Northern region of Manitoba in Canada is the total bear planet where...
Sand art is one of the most underrated forms of art in the modern world. This may be because, while being aesthetically pleasing, their effects are transient as they tend not to last, not to mention they are almost impossible to transport. Some may say sand art is ‘not real art’ but these aren’t your...
This article was originally published on November 14th, 2019, and has since been updated. For the sake of the children involved, co-parenting DOES NOT have to be complicated. Matured parents would be driven to put aside any feelings of antagonism or spite and look toward the future of their children. It’s usually easier on the...
Imagine picking up your bucket list to scratch off “rolling and puffing with the president’s son on the roof of the White House”. If anyone ever lived the ultimate rebel life, it was Willie Nelson, famous country musician and America’s most beloved “Stoner Uncle”. The rumor has been flying around for decades starting with snippets...
Loving Grandfather Spends Lockdown Building Epic Pink, Double-Glazed Playhouse for His Granddaughter
From fully catered squirrel restaurants to high-rising towers for cats, the coronavirus lockdown had many people coming up with the most astonishing creations to pass time. Boredom truly brings out the best in us, and what better way to spend free time than building timeless pieces for the ones we love? Grandfathers are simply the...
When you are a 1 in a 100,000 birth, you are supposed to be special and loved just like everyone else. Sadly, seals don’t understand the concept of uniqueness and would rather stick to the status quo. Last month, an extremely rare ginger seal was spotted in an all-black rookery on the Russian island of...