Tara Bahrampour, The Washington Post
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Visually Impaired Homeless Man Gets Second Chance In Heartwarming Story
David Voith had been homeless for nearly 30 years, and lost his eyesight about four years ago.
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US Mother Tried To Save Infant Son From Drowning In Hurricane, Charged
On Sept. 16, Dazia Lee of Charlotte, North Carolina, lost her son, Kaiden, during Hurricane Florence when floodwaters rushed her car.
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Her Electric Wheelchair Broke Down. What This Stranger Did Won Hearts
Belinda Whitaker's electric wheelchair conked out and she was stranded on the road. Bilal Quintyne, a 24-year-old amateur boxer, out for a run, noticed her and decided to help by pushing her wheelchair all the way home.
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They Never Heard Autistic Classmate Speak. Then He Gave Graduation Speech
People who know Sef Scott know he doesn't normally speak. The 17-year-old from Plano, Texas, has autism, and other than quoting lines from favorite movies, he is mostly nonverbal. So the members of the Plano Senior High School Class of 2018 - along with Sef's relatives and even his father - were stunned June 9 when he took the mic and addressed his...
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As A Young Man, He Had To Drop Out Of Georgetown University. Six Decades Later, He Finally Made Up For It
Dressed in a black cap and gown with a velvet-trimmed stole and surrounded by family, Carlos Manuel Sera watched the live stream in his son's house in Houston Friday and waited. First came the valedictorian. Then the salutatorian. And then the senior associate dean for the undergraduate program at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Busines...
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I Went To Get Hugged By a Professional Cuddler. Here's How It Felt
But professional cuddling, an occupation on the rise in our touch-starved culture, is informed by consent
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Some People Are Paying For Cuddles. And It's Not What You Might Think.
While paying for touch may sound awkward or unnatural to those who get plenty of it from partners or other close connections, for some people it is an antidote to a culture where casual physical contact seems elusive.
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Is The Red Stiletto Emoji Sexist? Here's The Backstory Of The New Women's Shoe Icon.
It was a few months after the 2016 election that Florie Hutchinson had what she calls her "emoji moment." She had gone into labor with her third daughter on election night expecting to celebrate the first female president, then emerged the next morning to a different reality.
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Loud Banging, Foot Pain, And Flashes Of Light - My Eight Minutes As A Dementia Patient
The tour creates empathy for the caregiver, but feedback from participants also helped provide insight into why patients with dementia behave in certain ways.
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New Treatments Restoring Sexual Pleasure For Older Women
The procedure also alleviates menopause-related symptoms in other parts of the pelvic floor, including the bladder, urinary tract, and urethra, reducing infections and incontinence.
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This Is What Happened When A Lonely 90-Year-Old Wrote A Letter To A Stranger
This past spring, Marleen Brooks, a 37-year-old property manager in the small town of Park Hills, Missouri, came home to find a handwritten letter from a 90-year-old woman she had never met.
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School District Employee In Maryland Fired After Correcting Student's Spelling In A Tweet
The downfall of Katie Nash as social media coordinator for Frederick County [Maryland] Public Schools was, she said, sealed in a tweet.
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After A 73-Year Union, Two Hospital Beds Pushed Together Offer The Best Comfort
For 73 years - through wars in Europe and Asia and civil rights battles at home, through the assassination of a president and the rise of rock-and-roll - they shared a bed.
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Growing Up American, Only To Learn You're Not
At basketball games at his Oregon high school, Justin Ki Hong, an adoptee from South Korea, remembers putting his hand over his heart and singing the national anthem, proud to be a citizen of the United States.
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Meet The British Schoolteacher Who's Out To Inspire The World, One Country At A Time
Will Hodson, a primary-school teacher in London, was reading a superhero book to his students one day when a thought struck him. "We were talking about how we can all do something heroic every day - open a door for someone, say something nice to someone." he recalled. "I scrapped the day's lesson plans and asked the 5-year-olds to think about, 'Wha...
