2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1144+ words) This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ruth Olinger, 70, who is raising her grandson on her own in Lakeland, Florida. Olinger had earlier fostered dozens of children and did mission work. Now, Olinger said she can’t retire and…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (756+ words) I’ve been saying I don’t want kids since I was a kid myself. In fact, as I got older, I became convinced I didn’t even like being around them. It wasn’t something I ever had to think twice about in…...

3+ week, 13+ hour ago   (428+ words) Important milestones are usually celebrated with loved ones, but this year, for my birthday, I decided to take a bucket-list trip to Hong Kong and Japan — on my own. Originally, I’d planned to celebrate at a rooftop bar with friends,…...

3+ week, 14+ hour ago   (1593+ words) Gabrielle Stone never imagined she’d get divorced, let alone that she’d tell the world about it. Her first instinct after the one-two punch of ending her marriage, then enduring her first post-divorce heartbreak in 2017, was to log off entirely. She…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (273+ words) The most popular dog names in America right now are Bella, Luna, Max, Daisy, and Charlie. The most popular baby names include Charlotte, Luna, Oliver, and Elijah. The Venn diagram has practically become a circle. The overlap is much bigger…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (399+ words) They propose getting a life! A young couple’s romantic marriage proposal at the Metropolitan Museum of Artwas ruined when a killjoy security guard interrupted — and ordered the groom-to-be, who was on bended knee, to “stand up,” viral video shows. As…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (913+ words) Dorothy Boggess starts every day the same way: with exercises in her kitchen. She plugs in an old boom box and hits play on the “Cha Cha Slide.” Then she stands with a hand on the counter, swinging one leg…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (846+ words) After school, I was grateful to be back in California. One day in my new apartment building post-COVID, I noticed a glamorous, petite Asian woman heading to the door next to mine. I guessed she was in her 50s. “You must…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (549+ words) I suppose I should note that it’s been a rough year and a half in Minnesota. In June of 2025, the Twin Cities awoke to the news that overnight, a shooter had assassinated a Minnesota state representative, Melissa Hortman, and her…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (291+ words) President Donald Trump’s son Eric Trump rushed to defend White House aide Natalie Harp on Wednesday while attributing her “looks” to “genetics,” a Trump family obsession. Eric Trump’s post on X came after CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront aired an interview…...