The Parkers had been waiting with joy for the arrival of their second child. Olivia, nine months pregnant, often spent afternoons on the couch with her young son Ethan curled beside her. He would chatter about how he’d teach his baby brother to climb trees, build forts, and share secrets in the backyard. Hope filled … Read more
Riley Green Makes a Move Riley Green isn’t just climbing the country music charts — he’s also making moves in Nashville’s real estate market. Earlier this year, the “Worst Way” singer listed his Charlotte Park home, and now the property is officially under contract. A Million-Dollar Listing The home hit the market at $1,059,999, represented … Read more
I paid extra for the window. A small thing, but for me it’s a lifeline. Clouds to count. Horizon to hold onto. Something to look at when the panic doesn’t listen to reason. We’d barely settled when the woman next to me asked to switch so she could sit with her teenage son a few … Read more
If Ben Affleck isn’t one of your top celebrity meme makers, we don’t live in the same world. Ben has become a real internet icon over the years, even though no one can fully explain why he’s so easy to relate to. In a recent interview with GQ, he talked about some of those viral … Read more
Chicago’s suburbs are mourning after 20-year-old Mariana Gómez was killed Monday evening by a stray bullet during a shooting on Fifth Street. She wasn’t looking for trouble—only carrying a résumé to apply for a job. But as gunmen opened fire, Mariana and a nearby shopkeeper were struck down, both losing their lives in the chaos. … Read more
My dad handed me a sealed envelope when I was a kid and said he trusted me with it. No drama, no instructions—just, “Keep this safe.” Every so often over the next twenty years, he’d ask, “You still got it?” I’d nod, or pull it from whatever hiding place it lived in that year—under a … Read more
More of a Mom Than Her Biological Mother: How Bunnie XO Stepped Up for Jelly Roll’s DaughterA Family Tested by Addiction Country superstar Jelly Roll has always been open about how becoming a father changed his life. When he learned while incarcerated that he had a daughter on the way, he vowed to turn things … Read more
Four days before the trip we’d saved three years for, my stepson died in a car crash. Lir was fifteen, stubborn and brilliant in flashes, a kid who called me “Dree” and laughed like he meant it. I should’ve stayed. Instead, I packed. “You can stay,” I told my husband. “But I’ve worked too hard … Read more
It’s likely that we will all have at least one experience in life that we can attribute to a higher power. You don’t have to strongly believe in God to think that some things are just too coincidental or too perfect to be natural. When it comes to some signs and signals that we might … Read more
I always figured my grandpa was a simple man—overalls, diesel on his boots, a pocket of loose nails he’d carry around like spare thoughts. He wasn’t one for speeches. He taught by showing: how to set a fence post straight, how to read a sky before a storm, how to save what can be saved … Read more