A phone jammed into your skin-tight jeans pocket typically has more freedom. Many endure the discomfort as though sleeping with these sheets is the eleventh commandment. Seriously, take it off and live life your life to the fullest. In case you’re wondering, a top sheet is that flat sheet that sits between your duvet and...
She shook this table really hard… Gender equality is a venture that women aren’t backing down from anytime soon. In an explicit Facebook post, Australian celebrity blogger and mom of four, Constance Hall called out husbands who have to wait to be asked before they help with chores [1]. A woman doesn’t have to nag...
She wasn’t pregnant at 4 am (or so she thought) but became a mother several hours later. Klara Dollan spent nine months not knowing she was pregnant until she went into labor and gave birth in her apartment bathroom. Circumstances like hers are known as cryptic pregnancies, a rare but not unheard-of phenomenon. What are...
It’s not easy for one person to pack a few necessities, get into a car, and drive off to live in a farmyard house, grow their own food, generate their own power, collect their own water, cook with wood and charcoal stoves, and literally just live without any modern utilities. For a family of seven,...
“All the forces on this planet will never beat that of a mother’s love.” – Elle Smith She didn’t actually believe it was possible that at the age of 60, she could go full-term as a gestational surrogate for her son and his partner. 61-year-old Cecile Eledge from Nebraska, Omaha, desperately wanted to be a...
Health officials discovered a woman who has posed as a nurse for 20 years. She was never certified to be one, yet she worked at a hospital in Jonquière, Quebec, Canada working in various departments during that time, including the operating room. The woman, whose name has not been disclosed, was able to get hired...
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...
“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...
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...
Some people would do anything for their 15 minutes of internet fame, sometimes even dangerous crimes. The internet is trying to recover from the Skull Breaker Challenge, which sent many kids into the emergency room with severe injuries, underage kids illegally buying alcohol under the guise of an elderly person, and the Benadryl Challenge, which killed a teen from...
There’s camping in a tent and then there’s camping in a trailer. Paul Elkins put both together to create a $150 mobile tiny home that could be towed around on a bicycle. All you need is some materials and Elkins’s printable instruction manual that costs only $20. You may be able to buy a tent for cheaper...
