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Music has shown us time and again that it can serve as a bridge across time. When a family of eight (including six children) unexpectedly lost their...
There are some songs that get so deeply embedded in our memories, we sing the words with ease. Many times, we don’t even question the lyrics or...
For many of us, there are at least small pockets of magic hidden in the memories of our childhood homes. Perhaps it was a rocking chair next to a...
Imagine the excitement of a grandmother receiving a “plaque” (of sorts) with photos of all her grandchildren. Now let’s raise the stakes just a...
Moments, whether found in old photos, a kind stranger, or a voicemail, can hit us in ways we might never have expected. So when Lina Perez’s...
Many of us have been there. We’re at a stadium concert or sports game and feel parched and starving. After waiting in a line for what feels like...
There is one event no living being can escape, and that’s death. Since the dawn of time, religious leaders and philosophers have helped many attempt...
There are only a few things in this life we can’t evade. One of them is aging. Sure, there’s Botox and facelifts and all that jazz to help us look...
When we were children, many of us felt like the world was our oyster. If we were lucky, we didn’t feel bound by societal or even familial...
On a hot Sunday in July, Carole Wade took the mic at a Dallas senior living facility where my mom lives. I happened to be visiting for the karaoke...
It really is quite simple: when it comes to luck, one way we can change it is by creating more variables for ourselves. The idea is that the more...
For some Gen X-ers, the lens through which we saw the world in the late ’80s to mid ’90s is unlike any other. It wasn’t just the lack of cell...
Linguist Rick Aschmann is incredibly detailed when it comes to hearing, dissecting, and detailing dialects. He and his wife have worked as Christian...
It began with a simple idea. If enough people liked his social media post, Benjamin Lloyd, a New Zealand tattoo artist, would delight kids in...
So often, we equate intelligence with standardized testing, or say, degrees or rank in a graduating class. The person who has a 4.0 GPA and high SAT...
For a lot of us with anxiety, it can be difficult to refrain from turning small negative thoughts into insurmountable, catastrophizing ones. We go...
It was just one of those things. A vowel sound was ever-so-slightly altered by a Southern accent, leading one word to sound like another. More...
Researchers have long realized we weren’t all experiencing imagination in the same way. In fact, the ability to inwardly visualize objects and...
In the never-ending quest to understand ourselves better, or at least have just one more distraction from whatever it is we should be doing, here...
Meet Joe. He’s an unpretentious guy who lives in Georgia and happens to love fast food, but not in an ironic “aren’t I so cool” kind...
Anxiety can be a tricky condition to quell. Because it’s so common, researchers have spent decades trying to better understand it and find the right...
For someone who didn’t personally write down his thoughts, Greek philosopher Socrates sure does have a great influence over modern-day thinking....
The 2026 World Cup has given us countless encouraging stories about how different nations view each other’s cultures. In a time when some might feel...
Imagine you’re walking by a payphone in Abilene, Texas, when it unexpectedly rings. You pick up, only to hear that a total stranger over 1500 miles...
Imagine this scenario: you’re rushing out of the house when you realize you don’t have your keys. You’re in a hurry and do not have time for...
If you’re a person of a certain age, you might remember the clothing brand Esprit. For many of us, shirts with that name sat in boxes kept in the...
Putting a dream into action can sometimes provide that little bit of magic children crave. So, when first grade teacher Ashley Lowry genuinely...
Learning to understand the delicate and often subjective art of what makes something beautiful can be eye-opening. Is it glowing yellow fish as they...
If you’ve never had the misfortune of putting loads of cash into a “claw machine” and coming up empty, then consider yourself lucky. These, of...
Crows do the darndest things. And if we’ve learned anything from studying them over the last century, it’s that their intelligence and...
Sometimes, even the people closest to us are silently struggling with an invisible issue. But the more we open up and normalize real problems, the...
Sometimes we just need to share our innermost thoughts and hear a little good news. So when the Instagram account We’re Not Really Strangers started...
In The Body, Stephen King famously wrote, “It happens sometimes. Friends come in and out of your life like busboys in a restaurant.” The novella...
It was just one of those things: someone transposed two numbers, causing a ripple effect that changed the lives of total strangers. In a popular...
We often think about what we would tell our childhood selves if we could go back in time. Perhaps you’d warn yourself to keep those fun concert...
There is something about this moment in time that makes it seem as though humans are seeking collective healing. This 2026 World Cup tournament has...
It’s really quite simple, and nothing especially new. Kindness can often beget kindness. At the very least, it certainly helps soften the edges in a...
Sometimes, people just want to sing. They imagine themselves belting out their favorite tunes to whomever will listen. But for many, anxiety overtakes...
Linguists tell us that there are about 7,170 languages spoken around the world presently. Realistically, give or take a language as they sometimes go...
Sometimes you just want to take a dip in the ocean. In fact, the urge can be so strong that you develop blinders as the sea breeze calls you in with...
Sometimes it takes a village. And sometimes it takes a crowd at a World Cup match in Dallas, Texas. Either way, when a man at the Argentina vs. Jordan...
Fumio Funaki lives a relatively quiet life in Japan. At 77, he teaches English and runs a small, cozy café. But his love story—and his stories in...
Edwin Rayner, a British man in his mid 90s, had a calling quite late in life: to make his singing voice known to the world. His handle on social media...
Imagine you’re walking deep in the woods when some kind of potentially aggressive wildlife appears. Ask yourself: Would you run? Would you freeze?...
Simon Howard, a man from Norfolk, England, loves researching family trees. It began with his own ancestry and morphed into a curiosity about people he...
The late, great Robin Williams once beautifully said, “I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy. Because they know...
Think back to your high school senior yearbook where people scribbled “keep in touch” or “stay sweet!” in its back pages. Usually, these were...
Oliver Henry, a man from England, is traveling across the United States to follow the FIFA World Cup games. What he has discovered along the way is...
In every group of friends, you need a pragmatist, an anything-goes-er, a salt-of-the-earther, and a historian. I’m the latter, which can be tough...
There are moments of kindness that miraculously can stretch into a lifetime. Such was the case for nearly 30-year-old Ronnie after he knocked on Rob...
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