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13 Titanic Mysteries That May Never Be Solved
Was it even the Titanic? Everyone agrees that a luxury liner set sail on April 10, 1912, and sank five days later, taking the lives of around 1,500 of the 2,223 aboard. But that’s pretty much where the...
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How My Mother’s Lipstick Ritual Is Bringing Me Strength During Coronavirus
This morning, I stared at myself in the bathroom mirror and decided one new thing: I would not spend this week the way I’d spent the previous week. I would not (could not) keep drowning in a sort of...
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What It’s Really Like to Work at Trader Joe’s During Coronavirus
It’s been quite some time since it was an average day on the job for Shawn Sockie Chizito, a Trader Joe’s employee in Oakland, California. The chain, along with its grocery-store brethren, has seen a...
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I’m a Respiratory Therapist—Here’s What I’m Seeing on the Front Lines
I am a respiratory therapist. The simplest way I can describe my job is that I help people breathe. As a clinical liaison serving a number of hospitals in metropolitan Detroit, I coordinate with...
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The New Quarantine Hobby I’m Never Giving Up
Got some extra time on your hands? How many times have you said you’d love to try something new…someday, when you had the time? Well, the day has come, as many people around the world now find...
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I Lost My Job Because of the Coronavirus—Here’s How I’m Paying My Bills
I happily devoted more than 40,000 hours of my life—that’s 70 hours a week over the course of my 11-year tenure—to my employer, a catering business in Tempe, Arizona. After attending Le Cordon Bleu...
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Why I Stopped Complaining About Quarantine—And You Should Too
On Friday, March 13, my six-year-old son came home with a giant packet of worksheets in his backpack. Then I got the dreaded email: School would be closed for at least the next two weeks. The COVID-19...
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A 17-Year-Old Stepped In to Save a Choking Boy When No One Else Could
It was the homecoming parade in Rockwall, Texas, and cheerleader Tyra Winters, outfitted in her uniform, was riding atop one of the school’s floats. As it slowly made its way down the boulevard, the...
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After Losing a Child, This Couple Chose to Throw Birthday Parties for Less...
Skid Row. The very phrase conjures images of drunks passed out in gutters, lowlifes lying in wait, addicts in darkened alleys. It’s the definition of a place where dreams go to die. In Los Angeles’s...
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16 Things We’re All Looking Forward to Once Social Distancing Ends
Social distancing With much of the country under stay-at-home or shelter-in-place orders to help flatten the curve and stop the spread of the novel coronavirus, “social distancing” is a term we’ve all...
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21 Moving Photos of Kindness in the Time of Coronavirus
Simple acts of kindness can make a big difference Life is challenging right now on every level. We’re bouncing between fear, anxiety, and uncertainty as coronavirus disrupts our daily lives and poses a...
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12 Amazing Asian Americans You Didn’t Learn About School
Amazing Asian Americans When you think back to history class, you probably remember learning about things like the 13 original American colonies, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution. But what...
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How Star Wars Helped Me Bond with My Dad
My dad and I have always had a good relationship. He was the one who would let me experiment in the kitchen, the one who would travel to Orlando, Florida, with me for day trips to the Walt Disney World...
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When This Farmer’s Leg Got Caught in an Auger, He Grabbed a Pocketknife and...
The morning of Good Friday started like any other for Kurt Kaser, a third-generation farmer in northeast Nebraska. The 63-year-old, taciturn and as lean as a fence post, woke around 5:30, his wife,...
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I Live in Georgia—Here’s What Life Is Like Post-Lockdown (So Far)
As a work at home professional, my life has not changed a whole lot since the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Besides, as a citizen of Georgia, I can say that from the beginning the state was never really...
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10 Clever Ways People Are Celebrating Birthdays Under Quarantine
Happy Birthday to me! As social distancing becomes the reality for millions of Americans, the notion of celebrating birthdays with lockdown restrictions leads to sparks of creativity. A quarantine...
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Coronavirus Canceled Our Wedding—Until a Good Samaritan Stepped In
Rich and I were high school sweethearts, dating all the way until we decided to go to college in different states—California for him and Virginia for me. Yet even though we had broken up, I still...
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Two Nurses Working at the Same Hospital Discover They’re Half Sisters
Holly O’Brien’s patient was just being nice. She probably didn’t realize that South Korea has more than 50 million people or that there are over 1.7 million Korean Americans living in the United...
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The Heart-Wrenching Moment That Led to the Idea of the Red Cross
The Red Cross, now approaching its 138th year in existence, is known for performing some of the most heroic acts in the world, but its origin story is far from rosy. Before we start at the beginning,...
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During the COVID-19 Crisis, This Man Helped People in Need Get Toilet Paper
Jonny Blue, above, said his sign made drivers ask themselves why people were hoarding toilet paper. Back in March, when COVID-19 had just started its deadly trek across the country and people were...
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