A dog was the catalyst for everything. For months, my son Andy had been pleading for one. The same thing is asked every day: “Dad, could we please, please get a dog?” I was on the verge of giving in to his unrelenting demands. However, he also needed to persuade my wife, Kelly. After much…
At the Leading Women Defined Summit in California, former vice president Kamala Harris stepped onto the stage to a warm, anticipatory applause and opened with a story from her early days in public service, recalling the first time she spoke before a skeptical audience and felt her voice tremble. She confessed that in that moment,…
Leaked messages from a private Signal group have plunged Donald Trump’s leadership into turmoil, sowing doubt among his closest advisers and exposing fractures within his administration. Fewer than one hundred days into his return to the White House, questions about stability swirl not only from the Democratic opposition but from the very team he assembled….
Nicole Kidman has been Keith Urban’s steadfast supporter since they married twelve years ago, and last night she was right by his side as he was named Entertainer of the Year at the 2018 Country Music Association Awards. The 51‑year‑old Australian actress beamed with pride as her husband accepted the night’s top honor. For the…
We only planned to indulge in funnel cake and lemonade—our annual ritual at the county fair, where the lights glow bright, the air smells of fried dough, and the rickety rides somehow still thrill. This year, however, marked our first visit without her father, and I didn’t realize how much that absence weighed on my…
Purslane, known scientifically as Portulaca oleracea and colloquially as pigweed, little hogweed or fatweed, is far more than a stubborn garden invader. In Mediterranean Europe and parts of Asia, it’s prized as a leafy vegetable—and with good reason. This succulent plant thrives in poor soil and drought, yet delivers a remarkable nutritional punch. Traditional Chinese…
Tyler pressed his nose against the car window as his father pulled up outside the little grocery store. He clutched his heavy piggy bank, jingling with fifty‑cent coins he’d earned by solving Grandma Martha’s riddles. Yesterday the doctor had warned that pneumonia could turn her illness into something far more dangerous. Tyler knew exactly how…
In a case that’s shaken a Texas community and ignited fierce debate online, the father of a teenage boy accused of killing a fellow student is speaking out —pleading with the public to see beyond the headlines and consider the full story. “He’s a good kid” Andrew Anthony, the father of 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony, gave…
Katie Piper revealed on her Instagram earlier this year that she had made the decision to try a prosthetic eye shell following years of health struggles relating to her eye. Katie was just 24 when, in March 2008, her despicable ex Daniel Lynch, now-47, plotted a vicious ambush, hiring someone to throw sulphuric acid in her…
Jay North, best known for playing the troublemaking blond kid with the iconic cowlick on Dennis the Menace, has passed away at the age of 73. After years of battling a terrible illness, he passed away peacefully at home on April 6. Hollywood almost destroyed him Jay North, a name forever linked to classic TV, shot…