Mom found an exceptionally nice friend at the Kingdom Hall. Fran babysat my low-functioning autistic sister and me for almost nothing a week so that my single mother could try to wean our family off of welfare by training to be a medical assistant at one of those colleges advertised on TV. Fran ...

News came out this month that a Domestic Violence shelter for male survivors opened in Batesville, Arkansas. According to the article, it is the first shelter for male survivors in the country. Several people on my Facebook Newsfeed (an extremely scientific sample) posted this news happily. And ...

Advertising art director Patrick M. Horton, who lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his roommates, decided the blizzard of 2016 was the perfect opportunity to build an igloo (technically a quinzhee). After three hours of work, they posted the snow-structure on Airbnb for 200 USD with the following

In a land far, far away — known as Canada — a group of creative nerds fans honored Star Wars Day on May 4 ("May the fourth be with you") by posing with adoptable pets from their local animal shelter. They hoped the attention would help the animals find homes. This "Star Wars"–themed photo shoot is

There's no in-flight service but these pooches don't mind - just the fact they're still alive is a miracle.  Each year thousands of homeless pooches facing euthanasia - some hours away from death - get loaded on planes and flown to new homes in places where shelters are experiencing shortages.