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A rattlesnake gives a Colorado couple an instant lesson in sickness and in health when the snake bites the groom during wedding photos.
Family, Love Stories, Marriage, Uplifting Stories

Rattlesnake Bites Groom During Wedding Shoot

A rattlesnake biting your groom while your taking your wedding photos might not seem like the most uplifting of stories, but I’m sharing it because nothing like this to see how a new couple will weather the storms that come everyone’s way. The Today Show reports newlyweds Johnny Benson and Laura Loretz did what so many couples do–they went to take photos between their ceremony and their reception. The photographer knew just the perfect place–a reservoir near their favorite hiking

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Maine governor's wife, Ann LePage, is spending her summer waiting tables in a seaside town to earn extra money for a new car.
Businesses Who Rock, Food, Overcoming Obstacles, Uplifting Stories

Governor’s Wife Takes Summer Job Waiting Tables

A governor’s wife is turning heads in a seaside town in Maine where she has taken a summer job waiting tables. Ann LePage is the First Lady of Maine. Sounds glamorous. Most of the year she works her tail off supporting causes around her state. Her husband, Paul LePage, makes $70,000 a year, making him the lowest paid governor in the country. The LePages aren’t exactly complaining, but it does mean things can be tight, especially if you want some

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Flight attendant Molli Oliver is dedicated to reuniting military dogs with the veterans they served alongside.
Animals, Friendship, Heroes, Pets, Uplifting Stories

Meet The Woman Reuniting Military Dogs With Their Veterans

Flight attendant Molli Oliver has two great passions–military dogs and veterans who have given brave service to the United States. She’s now on a mission to bring valiant partners back together again. She’s reuniting retiring military dogs with the veterans they served alongside. And she’s doing it at her own expense. Come along as she makes another one of these magical reunions happen. United.com has a little bit more information on the wonderful Molli Oliver. How she’s a Los Angeles-based

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A funny horse insists on teasing and nudging a reporter for Makedonia TV as he tries to shoot a stand up. Instead, he just gets a bunch of bloopers and giggles.
Animals, Overcoming Obstacles, Uplifting Stories

Funny Horse Keeps Reporter Laughing As He Fails At Stand Up After Stand Up

So many of my current and fellow reporters will appreciate this reporter for Greek TV as he tries to shoot a stand up with a teasing horse determined to make him laugh. The Daily Mail says the reporter was trying to do a story for Makedonia TV, which was to include a stand up with Frankie the horse in the background. Clearly, Frankie has very specific ideas on how this stand up should go. And once the reporter gets the

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Beautiful beaches of Costa Rica with threatening storms in background make great representation of life--the beauty and the storms. The joy and the sorrow.
Daryn's Blog, Life Lessons Took Me Long Time To Learn, Travel

What Can You Do With Joy When There Is So Much Hurt In The World?

It was just supposed to be a short vacation. Not a chance to learn yet another life lesson. A chance to not work my brain and my heart so hard. That’s what I was thinking last week as my travel wizard husband pulled one of his miles miracles and flew us off to Costa Rica. Just us. No kids. No worries. That was the idea. At least. Until reality came crashing into paradise. “Did you hear what happened in Orlando?”

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Adoption from overseas can mean your family doesn't look like others and that's okay.
Daryn's Blog, Family, Love Stories, Parenting

When You Know Who Your Family Is, Even If You Look Different Than Others

You’ll forgive my cousin. She’s a little weepy today. Her Facebook feed popped up one of those anniversary photos that remind you where you were a year ago. What a photo. What a year. Amanda and her husband, Adam, were in Ethiopia. Meeting their son for the first time. In person, that is. They met him in their hearts years before. So, you might want to make this “What a three years!” Ask anyone who has adopted, Dear Reader. They’ll

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Grandmother delights the world when she includes please and thank you in her google search.
Family, Uplifting Stories

Grandson Shares Grandmother’s Delightful, Polite Google Search

Ben John didn’t know if he would be the only one who would be delighted, but when he came upon his grandmother’s Google search, he knew he had to share it. The BBC reports Ben John was at his gran’s house in Britain to do some laundry when he asked to borrow her laptop. He opened it up to see she had been searching for something on Google. May Ashworth simply wanted to a translation of a long line of

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Six best friends from Compton make good on their pact to succeed.
Best Girlfriends Ever, Overcoming Obstacles, Uplifting Stories

Best Friends From Compton Make Good On Pact To Succeed

Compton is perhaps not the first place a reporter would think to do a story on six academic superstars. That would be a mistake. A mistake to underestimate the power of girlfriends. Six girls who made a pact in middle school. CBS News reports that if one was going to succeed, they were all going to succeed. In the spirit of, “You, Go, Girlfriend!” check out what these girls have accomplished. Dedicated to each of my girlfriends who has pushed

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NFL Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ronnie Stanley recently went into BARCS animal shelter and asked to adopt a shelter dog that's been here a long time.
Animals, Celebrities, Pets, Uplifting Stories

NFL Player Asks To Adopt Shelter Dog That’s “Been Here A Long Time”

Plenty of good hearts walk into rescue shelters looking to adopt a shelter dog. Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ronnie Stanley and his girlfriend had even a higher mission when they went to BARCS. The shelter shares the story on their Facebook page where they say Stanley specifically asked, “We are looking for a dog that’s been here a long time and maybe not-so-adoptable.” They met a number of dogs, but Stanley knew he’d found his pup when he met Winter. She’s a 6-year-old

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