Why do people raise girls with the “there is no love without pain” mentality? Love requires work and compromise, but it does not have to be painful. Love is kind, patient and beautiful. Everyone deserves to be happy when they are in love. It’s time we stopped justifying abuse and passing it off as “the…
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As adults, we’re always told that relationships (which include marriage and all forms of romantic partnerships) need lots of work and effort to last long and stay strong. We’re often taught that it’s never easy and no one should expect a bed of soft roses. A thorn or two must poke through at some point…
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Think back to when you were nine years old: what were your biggest concerns at the time? Whether you could sit next to your best friend in class? That you would do well in your next piano recital? Why your parents didn’t agree that a bag of candy wasn’t a suitable option for your lunch?…
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I don’t know about you, but I’d always just assumed that even though people think different (and mostly wrong – do better, everybody) thoughts from myself, everyone sort of thinks in roughly the same way that I do. Well, it turns out that is not the case at all, and I’m far from alone in my mistake. A tweet went…
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World-renowned physicist and cosmologist, Stephen Hawking (1942-2018) left behind a trail of famous quotes, wise words, and inspirational sayings before his death. In 2016, during an interview with Larry King of the Larry King Now talk show, Hawking said that humankind has always been its own greatest problem. We are consciously careening too close to…
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It’s the start of a brand new year, which means we are now in that lovely part of the year when you constantly have to re-write the date every time you sign something because your forgot what year it is. And while in previous years we could simply write a quick 03/03/19, this year we…
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Christmas. It’s the season of joy, of giving, of making memories with our friends and family. Our cities, towns, offices, and homes are decorated with twinkling lights, and cheerful holiday music is playing everywhere we go. Our friends, colleagues, and neighbors keep echoing sentiments like “Merry Christmas!” and “Happy Holidays!” Everyone seems so happy, and…
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Christmas. It’s the season of joy, of giving, of making memories with our friends and family. Our cities, towns, offices, and homes are decorated with twinkling lights, and cheerful holiday music is playing everywhere we go. Our friends, colleagues, and neighbors keep echoing sentiments like “Merry Christmas!” and “Happy Holidays!” Everyone seems so happy, and…
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“I tried to keep it together. But the moment I was at her funeral and I watched her body being lowered into the ground, I felt the crushing pain. It doesn’t matter how old you are; when the pain of losing a mother hits you, you can’t stop the flood of despair that threatens to…
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Many people have friends they’ve known for what feels like forever. Maybe they met in college or at work or in a carpool group, or they go way back from childhood. The friendship feels secure, as do most relationships that have lasted for years, but people may take these connections as facts of life without…
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In 2015, Max Cronin decided he wanted to ditch his glasses by getting LASIK surgery shortly after he served as a soldier in Iraq. He felt the surgery would allow him to study easier as he took courses as a petroleum engineer student at Texas A&M University. His mother, Dr. Nancy Burleson, was so thrilled…
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Should cannabis be regulated in the same way as alcohol? A police commissioner in the UK, Arfon Jones, thinks so. According to the former police officer, there is no reason why cannabis should not be sold over-the-counter in licensed shops [1]. With legalization occurring in different parts of the world like Canada, and several US…
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On Tuesday, October 29, American psychologist/TV personality, Dr. Phil released a rather disputable teaser for an upcoming episode on his YouTube channel, Dr. Phil [1]. As usual, he stirred up certain controversies that have attracted the attention of medical experts and actually licensed practitioners from around the world. Remember, Dr. Phil has a Ph.D. in…
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Perhaps, the obsessive need for online validation is part of the upgrades in the social media age. Back when my grandmother sat by the riverside waiting for her, ‘gentleman caller’, she didn’t need to take selfies and post it on Facebook before she’d feel like something official was going on between them – well, there…
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Healthy processed foods have undoubtedly grown in popularity. When I went gluten-free eight years ago to curb my autoimmune symptoms, I had a whole new world of products to navigate. I had just begun eating healthy a couple of years before and was still figuring out what was really “good” and what wouldn’t benefit me….
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Whenever an artificial intelligence (AI) does something well, we’re simultaneously impressed as we are worried. AlphaGO is a great example of this: a machine learning system that is better than any human at one of the world’s most complex games. Or what about Google’s neural networks that are able to create their own AIs autonomously? Like we said –…
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If someone told you a dangerous flu pandemic could spread across the world in just three days and kill upwards of 80 million people, would you believe them? A group of experts in a first-ever released report from the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board is saying that this exact scenario is entirely possible and that, as…
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Home milk deliveries from local dairies and creameries used to be a part of the daily routine for many families up to the 1950s and ’60s. However as it became easier and cheaper to purchase milk from the store, the milkman began to disappear. However as many Millenials shift to more sustainable ways of living,…
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Although the 1950s left its mark on today’s culture, much has changed since then. The time period gave us icons like Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, and Audrey Hepburn who we recognize today, but it was also a time of opposing communism and the Cold War. Meanwhile, came the baby booms, the suburban booms, and the…
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We’ve all faced entitled people before. These are the individuals who feel no qualms cutting ahead inline at the grocery store or demanding their seatmates on a plane switch so they could sit next to their friend or partner, (although they could have booked more in advance or paid a little extra to ensure they…
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Siblings are a part of what makes childhood so memorable for so many. They are our first and favorite playmates, with older siblings to teach us new games, and younger to follow us on whatever adventure we conceive. Yes, we fight and compete, but our siblings would jump to defend us from any threat, even…
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Food just seems to taste better when eaten in a social atmosphere of love and unity. Sometimes the term, ‘The good ol’ days’ holds true, and this is one of those times. There was a time when a Sunday without a family dinner wouldn’t feel like a Sunday at all. Families would only skip such…
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Many women silently battle with postpartum depression, and this story should remind us that not every mother’s journey is joyful, happy and bright. Sometimes it gets dark, lonely, scary, miserable and uncertain. In Montgomery, Alabama, lived Allison and Julie – neighbours, and lifelong friends. Allison and Julie were both Army wives, and when Julie moved in…
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“The deepest desire of the human heart is to belong … to be welcomed … to know that you are seen and worthy of kindness,” Rachel Macy Stafford. Isolation and marginalization are some of the worst social situations a person could go through. The feeling that you are alone and rejected, coupled with outright avoidance…
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