6-Year-Old with Cancer Gets Hundreds of Christmas Cards from Strangers: 'It Lifted His Spirits'

Photo: Doneshia Lee Six-year-old Jomari Bradley, of Cincinnati, Ohio, has been feeling down this year as he’s undergone treatment for brain cancer, but hundreds of Christmas cards from strangers have lifted the boy’s spirits. Bradley, who has anaplastic ependymoma, didn’t know that his uncle, Waffers Brown, planned to write a Facebook post asking the public to send the little boy Christmas cards. “He’s been going through a lot this past year....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 483 words · Colton Hall

7 Quick Tweaks to Make Working from Home Easier on Your Body

Photo: Getty Images New year, same pandemic. What started as a few weeks in lockdown is nearing its one-year anniversary, but that doesn’t mean our working-from-home habits have gotten any better. Make your resolution to take it easier on your body and brain with these expert-approved tweaks that will help keep you in good shape for the unforeseeable future. 1. Get comfortable Your neck is a common area for stress-related pain and muscle tension, and as you can guess, stooping to squint at a laptop isn’t helping the matter....

March 16, 2025 · 6 min · 1153 words · Dustin Shaffer

8 Children with Custom Dolls Just as Unique as They Are

01of 07Maeve and Mairéad ContantAnne ContantSiblings Maeve, 7, and Mairéad Contant, 5, are adopted from China and have albinism, a genetic condition where there is little or no production of the pigment melanin. Mom Anne Contant turned toAmy Jandrisevits, creator ofA Doll Like Me, to see if she could create dolls thatlooked like her daughters.“We really wanted Maeve, and her siblings, Mairéad and Liam, to have have dolls that looked like them,” says Contant....

March 16, 2025 · 4 min · 818 words · Mark Payne

8 Years After Dying Patient Pleaded with Nurse to Raise Her Son, the Boy Is Thriving: 'I'm Grateful Every Day'

When oncology nurseTricia Seaman’s patient learned that her cancer had spread and she only had months to live, Seaman did her best to console her.But on that afternoon in March 2014, Trish Somers didn’t want to be consoled. The 45-year-old single mom — whose life revolved around her then-8-year-old son Wesley — was focused on something else.As she sat in her bed at UPMC Community Osteopathic Hospital in Harrisburg, Penn....

March 16, 2025 · 4 min · 763 words · Victoria Martinez

9 Times Julianne Hough & Brooks Laich Were Super Honest About Everything from Sexology to Toe-Sucking

01of 09Julianne, on Her Husband’s Reaction to Her Sharing That She Is ‘Not Straight’MEGAIn September 2019, Julianne shared withWomen’s Healththat she is “not straight” and said that because of her revelation, she now has a more intimate relationship with husband Brooksandhas “never felt more like a womanin [her] life.“Shealso sharedthat she was initially worried about bringing up her sexuality with her husband, but eventually found it to be a positive decision....

March 16, 2025 · 9 min · 1735 words · Daniel Baker

9/11 First Responder Luis Alvarez, Who Testified with Jon Stewart, Is Now in Hospice Care

Luis Alvarez.Photo: Zach Gibson/Getty Luis Alvarez, whorecently made an impassioned plea to lawmakersto push for reauthorizing funding for the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, is now in hospice care after a years-long battle with a 9/11-linked cancer. The former U.S. Marine and bomb-squad detective for the New York Police Department appeared before Congress alongside comedianJon Stewarton June 11, where he revealed he had undergone 68 rounds of chemotherapy after being diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2016....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 548 words · Tyler Carroll

A Look Back at Oscar Winner (and Birthday Girl!) Laura Dern's Most Iconic Roles

01of 18 Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982) Paramount/Kobal/Shutterstock 02of 18Blue Velvet (1986)De Laurentiis Entertainment Group/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via GettyInBlue Velvet,the first of her collaborations with writer/director David Lynch, Dern played the daughter of a detective who, along with her friend Jeffrey Beaumont, tries to solve the mystery of a severed ear in the grass near their homes. 02of 18 Blue Velvet (1986) De Laurentiis Entertainment Group/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty...

March 16, 2025 · 8 min · 1524 words · Casey Hoffman

A Major Meteor Shower Will Be Visible in the U.S. Tonight! Here's How to Get the Best View

Photo: Yuri SmityukTASS via Getty A serious celestial show is coming! On the night of Monday, Oct. 21, continuing into the early morning hours of Tuesday, Oct. 22, stargazers get a chance to witness the Orionidmeteor shower. The shower occurs every October, typically between Oct. 16-26, but Monday night the show in the sky will be at its peak. For the best chance at viewing the meteor shower,AZ Centralrecommends being prepared to spend over an hour outside between 10 p....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 298 words · Eric Parker

A Young Life Tragically Taken: Slain Barnard Student 'Already Was Making the World a Better Place'

Photo: Tess Majors/Instagram Chris Graham knewTessa Majorswas a standout the minute he met her for coffee last December to discuss her upcoming internship. “I’m used to these meetings lasting 15 or 20 minutes,” Graham, the editor of theAugusta Free Press,tells PEOPLE. “But we were sitting there talking for 2½ hours. She had many questions for me. I knew right away she would do well.” “I told her she was a natural journalist,” Graham tells PEOPLE....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 593 words · Kristin Dixon

Abandoned Pet Bunnies Overrunning Florida Neighborhood: 'They're Everywhere You Look'

Photo: Courtesy of Amy Bernauer The wave of rabbits started in November when an unknown individual released three unwanted pet bunnies in the Azalea Park area near downtown Orlando. Then nature took over, according to Sue Chairvolotti, the adoption coordinator atOrlando Rabbit Care and Adoptions. “They dug their way out of the backyard, and the rest is history,” she tells PEOPLE. A rabbit can produce 1-14 babies every 30 days or so and can get pregnant again the day she gives birth....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 424 words · Jennifer Moore

Abby Lee Miller Makes Rare Red Carpet Appearance in a Wheelchair as She Battles Cancer

The reality star made a rare public appearance at the National Film and Television Awards on Wednesday night. Miller sat in a wheelchair as she stopped and smiled for photos on the red carpet. The outing comes just three monthsafter Miller left her rehabilitation facility in September. In April, one day after undergoingemergency surgeryfor what was initially thought to be a spinal infection, the reality star — who wasreleased from prisonin March — was preliminarily diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a cancer that develops in the lymphatic system....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 315 words · Charles Gross

Accused 'Pillowcase Rapist' Convicted of Kidnapping and Sexually Assaulting a Woman 40 Years Ago

Photo: Tim Shortt/Florida Today/AP A Florida man has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman in the early 1980s. Robert Eugene Koehler, 63 — who has come to be known as the “Pillowcase Rapist” —was convictedof kidnapping, sexual battery and burglary with a deadly weapon after a jury’s hours-long deliberation on Wednesday, according to NBC Miami. He could face up to life in prison when he’s scheduled to be sentenced on March 17....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 404 words · Jeffrey Flowers

Adam Sandler Claims Netflix Had Him Change the Location of 'Hustle' From China to Spain

Adam Sandler’s upcoming Netflix filmHustlewas originally set in China, but the 54-year-old actor says that is no longer the case. During an interview Thursday onThe Dan Patrick Show, Sandler told the host that the company requested the setting be changed as the streaming service is unavailable in the country. “It was written originally that I find a player in China. And somehow, Netflix is not in China, so they were like, ‘Would you guys please make it so we find someone in Latin America or Europe?...

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 302 words · Vincent Fisher