How I Mostly Got Over My Mom Guilt About Work

 Posted on August 30, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  1052 words  |  Kelle Repass

A few weeks ago, my kids’ babysitter was out sick with a cold, so I went to pick up my two sons from school. The kids all hustled out, adorable and chatty, and my 5-year-old spotted me, running over for an enormous, surprised hug. “Mommy! What are you doing here?” he asked. One of his pre-K friends witnessed the scene, looked me up and down, and said, “Are you Sandy’s mommy? [Read More]

How Native Americans Who Fed Pilgrims Spend Thanksgiving

 Posted on August 30, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1155 words  |  Patria Henriques

It’s been 400 years since the meal known as the first Thanksgiving took place in Patuxet, the area now known as Plymouth, Massachusetts. Two prominent figures in the Plymouth Colony described it as a three-day feast and celebration of the harvest, attended by the colonists and a group of Wampanoag Native Americans and their leader Massasoit. But the Wampanoag were likely not in so much of a celebratory mood. They had been reeling from an epidemic of a still-mysterious disease that had almost wiped them out; outbreaks would continue to roil the tribe for the next 30 years. [Read More]

I grew up too fast - Rema on losing his father and brother

 Posted on August 30, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  311 words  |  Patria Henriques

During a recent interview with GRMDaily, the singer detailed the rapid transition from adolescence to adulthood that he had after his father and brother died, noting that he had to give his childhood up rather quickly. He revealed, "I feel like I grew up too fast. Life switched up on me crazy when I lost my dad and my brother. It's just like the weight was on my shoulders and it forced me to sell my childhood just to provide for my family. [Read More]

Instagram star Dan Bilzerian ran up to cops during the Las Vegas shooting and asked for a gun

 Posted on August 30, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  347 words  |  Kelle Repass

"Give me a gun," Bilzerian said in the footage, showing the officers something in his wallet, very likely a gun permit. "You don't want my help?" "No, get the f--- away from me right now," the police officer responds. "I don't know who you are." The video, which was posted by the Instagram user F-1 Firearms, is below. Gunfire can be heard in the background. ADVERTISEMENT Dakota Meyer cue @danbilzer. [Read More]

Key West, Florida Pritam Singh's Strange Career

 Posted on August 30, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1203 words  |  Kelle Repass

At 9 o’clock on a weekday evening, having just flown in from his Vermont retreat, following the previous week’s human rights mission into the hills of El Salvador, Pritam Singh is touring the best piece of real estate on Key West: the Truman Annex, a former Navy property where Harry Truman had his Little White House. Singh owns the place now, and one is unsure which jarring and inapposite piece of his biography best begins to explain him: That he is a former SDS organizer who is building a Ritz-Carlton hotel? [Read More]

Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa Cleared by Philippine Court of Tax Evasion

 Posted on August 30, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  534 words  |  Martina Birk

A Philippine court on Wednesday acquitted journalist and Nobel laureate Maria Ressa as well as Rappler Holdings Corporation, the company that owns the news site she co-founded in 2012, of tax evasion charges. The ruling represents Ressa’s latest victory against what press freedom advocates have branded as judicial harassment. The four tax evasion charges were filed in 2018 by the government of then-President Rodrigo Duterte, Rappler reported. An official from the clerk’s office of the Court of Tax Appeals, First Division, confirmed Ressa’s acquittal of tax evasion cases to TIME. [Read More]

Nonso Bassey pulse interview | Pulse Nigeria

 Posted on August 30, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  1021 words  |  Kelle Repass

She had overhead that the singer cum actor was in the studio for a session and wanted to get a hug and selfies to show her sister. After a few minutes, she left with that all too familiar smile. It's one I have had a couple of times in the weeks leading to my scheduled interview with the fast-rising music and film star. Bassey's artistic persona has that mesmerizing effect on his growing fanbase. [Read More]

Outlander Episode 2 Recap: Claire and Jamie's Relationship Goes There

 Posted on August 30, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  1060 words  |  Patria Henriques

Last week on Outlander, burgeoning feminist Claire Randall flitted off to Scotland for a post-war tryst with her husband, touched an ancient stone that was high on magical Druid fumes, and time-traveled to the 18th century. (Normal.) This week, Claire found herself fully entrenched in the highlands’ undulating moors, and spent much of her time treading the line between spirited free-thinker and whatever word best describes “the urge to bosom-heave at a gaggle of unwashed Scots. [Read More]

Popeye's Jokes About Chicken Sandwich Shortage on Twitter

 Posted on August 30, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  199 words  |  Billy Koelling

September 12, 2019 3:47 PM EDT Hell hath no fury like a customer who was denied a Popeye’s chicken sandwich. The fast food chain discovered this on Thursday after they posted a joking tweet about a new “BYOB” chicken sandwich, suggesting that customers “bring your own bun” to make a chicken sandwich with their three piece chicken set. “Try our new BYOB! It’s basically The Sandwich! Only no mayo. Or pickles. [Read More]