April is Child Abuse Awareness Month and a great time for parents, families and caregivers to make certain kids at every age understand personal safety. Since starting the nonprofit Lauren’s Kids to combat the threat of abuse, I’ve learned that abuse occurs at every socioeconomic level, across ethnic and cultural lines, within all faiths and […]
13 trucks gathered under the overpass to help a man police were trying to talk away from the edge A powerful image is making its way around social media today thanks to the Michigan State Police and a large group of semi truck drivers who banded together to help a man considering ending his life […]
How many times is it socially acceptable to watch Coco in six months? All that cheering you hear? That is the internet learning the the Disney Pixar gods have given us the greatest start-of-summer gift there ever was: Coco is coming to Netflix next month. That’s right, just in time for the kids to be out of […]
One of the very first musicals I saw perform live was The Phantom of the Opera. The iconic love story is one of the longest running shows on Broadway and hails back to theater from years gone by. The music is, at times, chilling, and the costumes and set are stunning. This Spring, Andrew Lloyd […]
The kindness of a stranger helped one woman and her kids on a recent flight Jessica Rudeen was traveling alone with her two kids, Alexander, four months, and Caroline, three, to visit her mom in North Carolina. That sentence alone is enough to make any parent shudder and for Rudeen, things didn’t go exactly as […]
Uranus is about to be the butt of so many more jokes That joyful sound you hear today is the entire internet giggling, and at science, no less. Science isn’t normally the funniest of subjects, so what’s going on, exactly? Well, a study just found that Uranus (of course it’s Uranus) is basically a giant, floating […]
Amazon can put your impulse purchases directly into your Volvo now This fall, Amazon freaked everyone out by offering a new set of services call Amazon Key that allowed customers to remotely give people and services access to their homes–including package deliveries. Now the online retail giant is finding even stranger ways to infiltrate our […]
Teacher writes Facebook post about the gut-wrenching realities of shooter drills In the wake of a series of horrific mass school shootings, some administrations are asking their staff to run active shooter drills. One teacher shared the realities behind that training on social media — and it’s completely, completely heartbreaking. The teacher, who would like […]
I started this blog about eight years ago and I absolutely love having my own creative outlet that I can work on around my family’s schedule. Lots of people ask me, “Do you think I could start a blog?” or “My sister needs a job that she can work from home. Could she start a […]
Non-Scientist Jim Bridenstine is new head of NASA A man who’s vastly unqualified for the job was just made the head of NASA because President Donald Trump seems determined to destroy the country in every way possible. NASA is pretty freaking into science, so it’s beyond ridiculous that Jim Bridenstine was made administrator of the […]