After being a proud mother to six boys, a woman from east Tennessee was shocked to discover that she had given birth to a baby girl. A video capturing her awestricken reaction has since gone viral. 34-year-old homeschool mom Ariel Tyson had grown accustomed to hearing the following lines from people, “You’re doing a great…
Homeschool Mom is ‘Shocked’ to Discover She Gave Birth to a Baby Girl After 6 Boys (Video)
‘I Love You Bro’: Dad Spots Young Man About to Jump Off I-15 Bridge, Stops, Opens His Heart, Saves a Life
What if you saw someone about to jump off a bridge to commit suicide over a busy highway? Would you stop and open your heart to save a life? Utah man Joe Tuia’ana, 42, found himself in that situation while driving his three daughters to one of their basketball games on Saturday, Jan. 29. At…
Photographer Captures Toddlers in Adorable Fur Coats Who Look Like Little Russian Dolls
Photographed in the snow with baskets of fruit, the children depicted in this series of images look like little Russian dolls, bundled up in tiny fur coats against picturesque backdrops. These toddlers with rosy cheeks appear like characters in a fairy tale. “Photographing children is a special pleasure,” child and family photographer Elena Algazina, 44,…
Hairdresser Loses 112lb Ditching Her Habit of Ordering Takeaways for a Healthier Lifestyle
A hairdresser from England lost a whopping 112 pounds (approx. 51 kg) after swapping her habit of ordering takeaways and eating junk food to a healthier lifestyle. In February 2021, Rachel Olser, 34, from Southend, Essex, had tipped the scales at 252 pounds (approx. 114 kg). “As soon as I started eating, I couldn’t stop, I…
‘What If the Influencers We Really Need Are Families?’: Mom Opts to Homeschool Amid Pandemic
February 3, 2022
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The choice was easy. Although it would probably lead to mud-clad children with bugs in their pockets and a wildly different way of living, JerriAnn and her husband, Matthew “Matt” G. Webb, were sure of their decision. It was August 2020, in the middle of the pandemic, and they had decided to homeschool their two…
Woman Slips on Ice in Freezing Temps Outside Home and Can’t Get Up—Until Kind Mailman Stops to Help
Amidst arctic temperatures descending on the Midwest lately, a retired Iowa woman lost her footing while fetching her mail. She fell on the sidewalk and was unable to get up. It could have ended much worse for 73-year-old Linda Houlton had it not been for a local mailman who stopped and helped her. On that…
Cooking Close to the Heart
To chef Jake Wood, who began his career cooking at top restaurants in Raleigh, North Carolina, his grandmother remains the best chef ever. Growing up down the street from his grandparents’ house in rural North Carolina, Wood remembers many family meals featuring his grandma’s “country soul cooking.” “In my memories as a kid, those times…
Legendary Journey: The Kevin Sorbo Story
Kevin Sorbo, most recognized for his starring role in the critically acclaimed television series, “Hercules: The Legendary Journey,” is strong in more ways than one. While performing in the show that made him a household name, Sorbo trained in the gym every day for six hours, no matter how far into the night filming took…
Raising a Forest by Hand
“The hills bear all manner of fantastic shapes,” Charles Bessey observed, noting that they sometimes featured open pockets of bare sand in blowouts and were “provokingly steep and high.” Bessey was describing the Sandhills, the area of post-glacial dunes wrought by mighty winds in north-central and northwestern Nebraska. Aided by his botany students from the…
How Ippolita Rostagno Is Bringing Italian Craftsmanship to America
February 1, 2022
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Thirty years ago, Italians began discouraging their children from entering the design and craft industry. Ippolita Rostagno, whose dual citizenship offered her the good fortune of growing up in Florence and later studying in the United States, has been traveling back and forth between the two countries for many years. As time advanced, she noticed…
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