DON'T EVER GIVE UP
End-of-life conversations can be hard, but your loved ones will thank you You can start these conversations simply, like saying, “I need to think about the future. Can you help me?” Richard Ross/The Image Bank via Getty Images Deborah Carr, Boston University Death – along with taxes – is one of life’s few certainties. Despite […]
2021-01-17 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) was the nation’s most prominent leader in the 20th century struggle for civil rights. He was born in the segregated south of Atlanta, Georgia and after graduating from Morehouse College, Crozer Theological Seminary, and Boston University he entered the Christian […]
2021-01-15 Support Small Business: 6 ways to help businesses in your community thrive (Family Features) Small business owners faced the challenges of the past couple of years head-on. Nearly all re-evaluated their operations to accommodate new ways of doing business amid changing safety standards and local protocols, and many plan to make these changes permanent. […]
2022-01-14 Campaign Empowers Individuals to Make a Difference (NewsUSA) – -Despite the steady stream of bad news, from politics to the pandemic, many aspects of society are more connected, peaceful, and advanced than ever. It is human nature to want to do good, and a new empowerment campaign supports the collective power of the individual […]
2022-01-13 A Catch-22 Trips Up Some in Legal Guardianship Who Try to Regain Independence Carter Barrett, Side Effects Public Media Ten years ago, Nicholas Clouse was riding shotgun in his friend’s Camaro when the car jerked and he felt himself flying through the air. Clouse’s head slammed against the passenger-side window. The traumatic brain […]
2022-01-03 States Are Hoarding $5.2 Billion in Welfare Funds Even as the Need for Aid Grows by Hannah Dreyfus ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Series: Welfare States How the Southwest Transformed Welfare When Congress passed […]
E.O. Wilson’s lifelong passion for ants helped him teach humans about how to live sustainably with nature Edward O. Wilson in his office in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, in 2014. Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Doug Tallamy, University of Delaware E. O. Wilson was an extraordinary scholar in every sense of […]
2021-12-26 As Pandemic Wears Down Hospital Staff, One Town Offers Groceries to Say Thanks Daryl Austin PARK CITY, Utah — This mountain community — which comes alive during the winter ski season and annual Sundance Film Festival — is home to the Park City Hospital, which has 460 employees. As in countless hospitals […]
Family rifts affect millions of Americans – research shows possible paths from estrangement toward reconciliation Early research suggests that nearly 1 in 5 Americans, about 68 million people, are in the midst of a family estrangement. baona/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Karl Pillemer, Cornell University Family relationships are on many people’s minds during the […]
Got Zoom fatigue? Out-of-sync brainwaves could be another reason videoconferencing is such a drag Conversation in person usually feels effortless. Conversation over video? Not so much. nensuria/iStock via Getty Images Julie Boland, University of Michigan During the pandemic, video calls became a way for me to connect with my aunt in a nursing home and with […]