Thanksgiving hadn’t held any real meaning for me since I lost my wife, Marla, at the age of forty-nine. Her illness was a slow, cruel cancer, the kind that strips a person down to silence and shadow long before the end. For three months, I slept in a recliner beside her hospice bed, often forgetting…
One evening, my wife had a sudden craving for McDonald’s pickles. Knowing how important it was to her, especially now that she was expecting, I went to the nearest McDonald’s to try to buy a container of just the pickles. When I asked the cashier, she kindly explained that they couldn’t sell pickles by themselves….
A teenage boy in the UK died just one day after he was given the heartbreaking news that he had leukemia. According to the Daily Mail, 16-year-old Harley Andrews was admitted to Royal Bolton Hospital in Lancashire, England, on November 8. Weeks before that he had visited his doctor after feeling under the weather, but was told…
Donald and Melania Trump aren’t usually very affectionate toward each other in public. However, last week they both kissed on stage, and the official White House X account posted a picture of them holding hands. Still, social media went into a meltdown over the post – calling it “the worst attempt at damage control.” Donald…
For decades, one half of Britain’s most infamous criminal duo lived a life shrouded in darkness, hiding unspeakable crimes behind the facade of a family home. Together with her husband, this woman participated in a string of murders and sexual assaults that shook the nation, targeting young women — and even their own children. Over…
Tennessee mother Staci Marklin was only 47 when she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. At the time, she had no idea that it was so serious, as the first symptoms she noticed weren’t what anyone would expect. Per the Cleveland Clinic, Alzheimer’s disease is a “brain condition that slowly damages your memory, thinking, learning and organizing skills….
Meghan Markle’s marriage to Prince Harry was not her first one. In fact, she had been married once before, to then-husband Trevor Engelson. As Meghan began dating Harry, Trevor had a brutal prediction of what was going to happen between his ex-wife and the prince. While still at the beginning of her successful acting career,…
Loni Willison, a former model and ex-wife of Baywatch star Jeremy Jackson, resurfaced this week on the streets of Los Angeles. Willison, 40, was spotted smoking a cigarette and pushing a shopping cart filled with blankets on June 29. The former star appeared contemplative, dressed in a layered top, skirt, leggings, white socks, and a baseball cap worn…
The story began mundanely enough. I had gone to the local grocery store and picked up a regular, mid-range sausage—nothing exotic, just something simple for a couple of quick sandwiches. At home, I sliced off a few pieces, ate them, and wrapped the remainder before tucking it into the refrigerator. It was an entirely normal…