One in every 588 Americans is homeless, according to recent estimates. Homeless population numbers flux from day to day. On one day in 2021, a coalition counted 3,160 people experiencing homelessness. It’s easy to talk numbers, and overlook that those numbers represent real-life people with real problems.
Enter Travis. He…
So there I was, minding my own business, sipping coffee, and playing Spelling Bee at the bottom of the NY Times. Most mornings I skip the news and head straight for the word games, but a stray notification popped up about my Apple watch being paired with my phone number.
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In November of 2020, one poll says: only 2 in 5 Americans opted to gather over the holidays. …
You’re probably familiar with shock and awe. In war, the term literally means to put on such a fantastic display that your enemy is stunned, confused, overwhelmed and paralyzed.
If the internet is a battleground, and everyone competes for attention, then you can understand, especially when online platforms change often…
When you check out at the grocery store, headlines scream at you from The Sun, Us, People, Time, and others. You’re busy putting your food on the conveyor belt, so these periodicals use captivating headlines to get your attention. …
When I visit a national park, I expect nature in all its glorious natural elements. Some people have different thoughts, though. Hard to believe some people leave a one-star review about nature being primitive, among other things.
“It’s like a bigger version of Central Park, only with bears.”
Anytime I’ve…
The ASPCA says approximately 4.1 million shelter dogs are adopted each year. Little did we know what adopting a little shelter dog would do for our family.
It was 2009, and we were knee-deep in a home improvement project. You know the kind that sends you to the hardware store…
You’ve probably heard the children’s rhyme: “It’s raining, it’s pouring, the old man is snoring. He went to bed with a cold in his head and couldn’t get up in the morning.”
Kids sing it when rain falls from the sky as a possibility of warding precipitation to fall some…
I trust my kids implicitly. If you believe that, I have some swampland to sell you in Florida too. Kids, as we know, are not the most reliable sources of information. You want to trust them, but should you?
Always trust kids, if you want the details to be nonconforming…
