While Fourth of July fireworks explode overhead, volunteers sit in animal shelters beside trembling dogs and frightened cats. Not at parties. Not watching fireworks. Not celebrating. But sitting in kennels. In the […]
That’s Jon Bon Jovi washing dishes in his Soul Kitchen restaurant in Newark, New Jersey. Not for a photo op. Not for publicity. Just washing dishes. Because that’s what needs to be […]
When I was 5, my brothers 4 and 1, our mother walked away and stole our grandmother’s savings. Not just left. Not just abandoned her children, which would be devastating enough. But […]
So last summer I randomly met this 80-year-old woman through an online game of Words With Friends. It started like most online gaming interactions—anonymous, transactional, focused on the game. Two random people […]
In 2019, actress Sienna Miller shared a touching story about her experience working with Chadwick Boseman on 21 Bridges. The movie was important to both of them. Good roles. Good script. Good […]
Someone saw their elderly neighbors (70s) running around outside in pajamas and bare feet, laughing out loud. Not quietly chuckling. Not politely giggling. Full-on laughing. The kind of laughter that makes you […]
Mrs. Chen was ninety years old when she made the decision. Her son—fifty-seven, the child she’d raised, the person who’d been there through every chapter of her long life—was facing charges. Serious […]
He lived on the bridge. Not by choice, but by circumstance—the kind that leaves you with nothing except the beings who stay loyal when everyone else has walked away. His family was […]
Nurse Pamela came home exhausted. Twelve-hour shifts at the hospital, sometimes longer, the kind of work that leaves you too tired to think about anything except sleep. She’d stumble through the door, […]
She was seven years old, standing on Cedar Street with a broken bike and a question that took all the courage she had. The officers from Hudson Police had just answered a […]