To Renee Bruns, the word “can’t” doesn’t exist. The intrepid 38-year-old has visited 110 countries and 15 territories — using her wheelchair to get around in all of them. Bruns chronicles her adventures on her blog, Wheels Travels, and she’s in the running to earn a Guinness World Record for the most countries visited in […]
Two savvy sisters have used their social media prowess to turn their family’s dress store into a viral sensation. Gipsy Rodriguez, 25, and her younger sister Gelssy, 23, grew up in and around their parents’ brick-and-mortar clothing store, Moda 2000 — at one point even living in it when times were tough financially. These days, though,
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Arsh Pal believes in the importance of making the world a more beautiful place: The talented 12-year-old not only paints prolifically, but he also sells his artwork and donates the proceeds. And so far, he’s raised over $16,000 for charities. It all started when his parents, Divya and Sanjeev Pal, bought him an acrylic paint
Update (10/4/23): A Pebble in the Pond is now available to stream on Amazon Prime Video and Tubi Anne Banning was a passionate philanthropist whose many charitable contributions include helping spearhead Assistance League (AL) in the mid-1890s, a nationwide nonprofit that is still active today. But because she was largely credited for her work under
A Denver, Colorado, nonprofit is soaring critically ill children above the clouds to receive the lifesaving medical treatments they need. Founded in 2010 by aviator and attorney Mark Pestal, AeroAngel and its crew of professional pilots provide the children with private flights to hospitals across the United States — free of cost and often at
When Connie and Mark Herrick first brought Ripley home, they knew that the tiny calico kitten had a big personality — so big that she would eventually inspire them to capture her adventurous spirit in a series of children’s books. The couple had adopted Ripley, the runt of a litter of kittens abandoned at a
Like jazz music, Mardi Gras, and Creole cuisine, costumes are tightly woven in the fabric of New Orleans culture. As such, Kelsey Meeks was surprised to see so many kids trick-or-treating without costumes on her first Halloween in the city, she told Nola.com. It was 2007, not long after Hurricane Katrina, and many families were
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Every year, millions of people are diagnosed with breast cancer around the world. It’s a disease many of us have experienced, either firsthand or through a friend or family member. When one compassionate young woman saw someone close to her feeling discomfort while traveling after a double mastectomy, she was inspired to support her in
From burdock burrs and Velcro to shark skin and airplane coatings, nature has inspired some of the world’s most interesting innovations. Now, an industrial designer has created a 3D-printed clay humidifier that absorbs and evaporates water without electricity, just like trees. Jiaming Liu crafted the eco-friendly Print Clay Humidifier as his master’s graduation project at
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Tammy Holloway-Servedio, a private pilot and senior manager for United Airlines, grew up as an only child. So when her mother passed away a few months before Christmas in 2019, almost 20 years after her father’s death, she found herself feeling alone as the holidays approached. But in a miraculous twist of fate, she was
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