As gender roles are merging and same-sex romance has become accepted more than ever, Josh Katz, Claire Cain Miller and Kathleen A. Flynn have decided to determine if men and women speak the same language when they talk about love. To determine that, they have examined modern love essays, submitted

One mom is inspiring parents across the internet with this powerful letter that she wrote to her five-year-old daughter. “Don’t apologize when someone else bumps into you,” reads the letter, written by Portland-based blogger Toni Hammer who recently posted it on Facebook. “Don’t say ‘sorry to be

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Ever get random late night cravings for yogurt-covered cranberries? One grandma in Kentucky did recently, which is why she went down to her local Kroger store to get some. That’s where she met a “fine young man” called Nathaniel Hunter, a store employee who helped her navigate the “darned

A stuffed animal might not matter much to the average person, but for a child, it could mean the world. When 10-year-old Leon Ashworth’s mom couldn’t afford to buy him a stuffed panda he desperately wanted, he wrote a forlorn note on the toy’s box pleading with shoppers not to buy it until his mom