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...
For decades, marriage has been glorified as one of life’s greatest achievements. For this reason, single people (women in particular) have historically been shamed for not being in a romantic relationship, being made to feel as though something was wrong with them. This is what psychologist Bella DePaulo, Ph.D., refers to as “mental blanketing”- the...
Who stares back at you when you look in the mirror? How have they changed over the years? For most people, watching their bodies change over the years can be an experience filled with mixed emotions- not all of them good. Women especially can feel bombarded by images and advertisements featuring younger, fitter, and thinner...
Self-reflection is a healthy and necessary part of self-improvement. How can we grow as individuals and become better if we don’t learn from our past mistakes? That doesn’t mean wallow in your past and let unwelcome feelings of regret take over. However, sometimes thinking about what you would tell your younger self helps put life...
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...
