Mary-Kate Backstrom’s shares stories about her two kids on her blog, usually comedic, but one night her daughter gave her mother a crash course on forgiveness. This interaction warmed and broke Backstrom’s heart. Her blog “Mom Babble” is “a place to discuss important things through the lens of motherhood. And by ‘important’ I mean anything...
Whether responsibly or not, parents make the decision to bring children into the world who are dependent on them for many years. All parents want to provide for their children. They long to give them a stable environment, educational opportunities, and nourishing meals. But sometimes this well-intentioned desire backfires. Adult children assume that their parents...
“Everybody loves a rags to riches story,” says Loren Krytzer, a man who went from surviving on disability checks to become a millionaire in a matter of minutes. Krytzer worked as a freelance carpenter until a car accident and a leg amputation took his livelihood from him. He was barely scraping by until he realized an old family heirloom...
A newly identified form of dementia, often confused with Alzheimer’s disease, has been named Limbic-predominant Amnestic Neurodegenerative Syndrome (LANS). This breakthrough in neurodegenerative research could significantly improve the diagnosis and treatment of patients with memory loss. LANS differs from Alzheimer’s in its progression and symptoms, particularly affecting individuals over the age of 80 with milder...
The pandemic has affected the world in many ways, namely the high number of layoffs. It’s difficult to find a new job. There’s a lot of handing out resumes, cold calling, and hoping to land an interview. Sometimes, applicants won’t receive a response since their CV is lost among so many others. It’s a devastating...
Farmers are icons of hard work. They have to be. They have to endure everything nature could throw at them. Infestations to droughts to storms to injuries to broken equipment, and every way possible way things could go wrong seem fixed on trying to cripple the harvest. Farmers are true survivors for living year-to-year to provide sustenance...
After the death of his wife, 75-year-old Tony Williams found himself very alone. Desperate for someone to talk to, he put up a poster asking for friends his window as a last-ditch effort. This is his story. Unbearable Silence Tony’s wife Joe, also 75 years old, passed away in May after a very brief battle...
Sometimes people just need to be given a chance. When this store manager gave a job to a homeless woman living in her store’s parking lot, that’s exactly what she did. It proved to be one of the best hiring decisions she ever made. Manager Gives Job to Homeless Woman LaShenda Williams has not had...
We all go into relationships for different reasons. Once you’re committed to someone for any frame of time, you deserve to experience true happiness from the intimacy that comes with being attached, mentally, and physically, to someone else. If you think about it, relationships are a big deal. Two people with different mindsets and characters...
Did you know that there was a link between red meat and dementia? When people consume around 1 ounce of red meat per day, their risk of developing dementia rises by 14%. However, if their red meat is replaced with a serving of legumes and nuts, their risk drops by 20%! This data was based...
Self-talk is an internal dialogue within our minds, combining conscious thoughts, unconscious beliefs, and biases. Many of us are familiar with this inner voice that provides a running monologue on our lives throughout the day. It serves as a way for our brains to interpret and process daily experiences. Many people wonder why they do...
It is commonly assumed that it takes 10,000 tries to become a master at something. If that’s true, then anyone who’s made it past 90 years old must be true masters at life. They’ve experienced all of the tears, fear, extreme happiness, and utter sadness that comes with each phase of life, and they have...
