A cancer diagnosis brought on a avalanche of thoughts and feelings that can be difficult to handle . None of us are prepared to hear that we or a loved one have a life-altering disease with a potentially lamentable outcome, and the uncertainty that follows a cancer diagnosis is scary….

There’s nothing more beautiful than being your truest, most authentic ego. For Tamara Dodds, getting there was a long journey. While she was assigned “male” at birth, Tamara knew early on that she simply didn’t fit in. “I’ve ever fought with the idea that I had a feminine side, ”…

You know that feeling when you step into a red-hot shower after a long, hard period? Between the blast of steam, the whiz of suds on your scalp, and the incredible acoustics that practically persuasion you to drop everything and audition for The Voice, it’s surely one of very good…

Coffee filters. Dishwashers. Hair brushes. Windshield wipers. Computer programming language. Try to reckon how your daylight would go without these thoughts. Unless you live in a compartment in the lumbers and couldn’t care less about modern availabilities( in which case, you’re probably not reading this ), the answer is “not…

Did you know that every time you buy something, you are able to make a big difference to the planet ? It’s true. Just request Brad Kahn. He is the director of communications at the Forest Stewardship Council( FSC ), a nonprofit that works tirelessly to supports responsible management of…

Miranda Legg has always known the recycling essentials, but she didn’t realize just how pernicious plastic can be if not recycled properly until she called a ocean turtle hospital in Florida. At the time, she was a sophomore in high school, and she recollects appreciating helpless ocean beings living with…

Mariah wasn’t concerned at first when an odd place is available on her finger. “I didn’t even notice until it started on my face, around my nose, ” she explained. But as it progressed, she was diagnosed with vitiligo, a condition that causes the loss of skin color across her…

When Shayna Watson decided to get an AncestryDNA test to disclose her ancestry on her 30 th birthday, she had a certain theory of what the research results would look like. “I expected to see African, I expected to see a little of European, simply based on colonization, and I…

Sometimes all it takes is a simple handshake to launch a move. Georgetown University student Febin Bellamy knows this well. While strolling to class one day, Bellamy decided to stop and say hey to a maintenance worker he’d read all over the passageways. He contacted out his hand to insert…

Growing up, actress and singer Mandy Moore recycled everything she knew how to, which wasn’t this is something that. She separated glass, plastic, and cans from the regular litter — which was actually quite revolutionary in the 1980 s, even though it’s more commonplace today. Since recycling was only just…

Today, it might seem like people wouldn’t have time to think about makeup during wartime — but during World War II, it was a priority . It was the 1940 s and a difficult time for Americans to keep their spirits up. After all, fascism was rising as a world…

Today, Amelia Mayer is known by numerous as the “Mountain Mama, ” but when it came to adventures with her own mama growing up, she wasn’t into it. When she was just one year age-old, Amelia’s parents took her hiking up the glaciers and mountains surrounding her home in Alaska….