Category: Uplifting Stories

Comfort dogs arrive in Orlando to offer love and help with grieving.
Animals, Kindness, Uplifting Stories

Comfort Dogs Arriving In Orlando To Help People Grieve

Comfort dogs are arriving in Orlando to help people grieve following the dispicible mass shooting at The Pulse nightclub over the weekend. WFAA reports the dogs are ready to be pet and lend an ear to anyone who needs one. They’ve come with their handlers from Texas, Tennessee, Ohio and six other states. In a place with so many tears, they bring the welcome gift of comfort, indeed. If you love your dog, you might like the dog-inspired pieces in

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"The Voice" star Adam Levine has offered to pay the funeral expenses for slain singer Christina Grimmie.
Celebrities, Friendship, Great Giving, Kindness, Uplifting Stories

Adam Levine Will Pay Funeral Expenses For Slain Voice Star Christina Grimmie

Maroon 5 lead singer And “The Voice” Coach Adam Levine would love to be able to turn back time before this weekend. Before the crazed gunman opened fire in an Orlando nightclub. And the day before that when another murderer killed up and coming singer Christina Grimmie. The two have been connected since Levine mentored Grimmie on The Voice two years ago. She made it onto the show after developing a huge YouTube following.  Her online popularity has only grown

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The National Aquarium in Baltimore now has plans to move its Atlantic bottleneck dolphins to an oceanside sanctuary by 2020.
Animals, Businesses Who Rock, Uplifting Stories

National Aquarium Moving Its Dolphins To Ocean Sanctuary By 2020

Dolphins at the National Aquarium in Baltimore have reason to smile today. The Aquarium is announcing plans to move its eight bottleneck dolphins its performing pool in Baltimore to nation’s first oceanside sanctuary in Florida or the Caribbean by 2020. The Baltimore Sun reports this is also a huge victory for animal activists who have protested for years that it is cruel to keep such large, intelligent creatures cooped up in such a small space. Aquarium officials envision a first-of-its-kind protected, seaside

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Buzz, Love Stories, Marriage

“Love And Romance Radio” Plays Host To Daryn & Husband

If you’re looking for an uplifting book, written in really short chapters, please check out Daryn’s new book, “Hope Possible: A Network News Anchor’s Thoughts On Losing Her Job, Finding Love, A New Career, And My Dog, Always My Dog.” Like the overweight person who has lost a ton of weight and still sees a fat person in the mirror, I think a part of me will forever feel like the never-been-married single girl. I am always surprised to get an invitation

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Books, Food, Friendship, Love Stories

My True Valentine Day’s Confession

It’s time for my Valentine’s Day Confession. Time to reveal who I have been with for the majority of my adult Valentine’s Days. It hasn’t been pretty.  I hope by sharing will make yours better this year. Please check out my new book, “Hope Possible: A Network News Anchor’s Thoughts On Losing Her Job, Finding Love, A New Career, And My Dog, Always My Dog.”

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Books, Family, Friendship, Husband's Crazy Frequent Flyer Mile Hobby, I Screwed Up, In-Laws, Kids, Life Lessons Took Me Long Time To Learn, Marriage, Overcoming Obstacles, Parenting, Pets, The Hard Stuff, Travel, Uplifting Stories

Daryn’s New Book, “Hope Possible!” Is Here!

I’m so excited that my new book, “Hope Possible” is here! The full title is, “Hope Possible: A Network News Anchor’s Thoughts On Losing A Job, Finding Love, A New Career, And My Dog, Always My Dog.” Here’s a peek at what it says on the back cover: From your TV screen, Daryn Kagan looked like she had her dream job.   As a news anchor for CNN, she had a front row seat to the world’s biggest breaking news

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Businesses Who Rock, Friendship, Great Giving, The Hard Stuff, Uplifting Stories

Rival Meteorologist And Other Journalists Fill In So WBDJ Journalists Can Go To Memorial

And here you have the other side of journalism. We saw the awful, dark, and twisted mind at work last week when Alison Parker and Adam Wade were shot dead while doing a live shot in Roanoke, Virginia. Monday, two former employees manned the evening broadcasts. Retired anchor Keith Humphry stepped in. Meteorologist Andrew Freiden is now at a rival station, NBC12, but he got his start at WDBJ. They were backed up by crews from CBS’ national news operation

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Best Girlfriends Ever, Friendship, Love Stories, Marriage, Travel

The Spoon That Held Hope I’d One Day Find Love

(((Coming up on our third wedding anniversary is making me nostalgic for that time when impossible dreams starting coming true. Sharing this column for you, who is still hoping to find love, and the friend who believes it’s possible, even when you can’t believe any longer. From June 2012:))) It must’ve been about four years ago when I first heard about The Spoon. Some of my best lady friends and I were on a Girls’ Trip to Charleston, SC. You know

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