Writer Starts a Pandemic Pen Pal Project - Now 7,000 People Are Mailing Joy to Strangers With Letters
New Yorker staff writer Rachel Syme has started a penpal community in the pandemic. It's called #Penpalooza, and 7,000 are now participating.
New Yorker staff writer Rachel Syme has started a penpal community in the pandemic. It's called #Penpalooza, and 7,000 are now participating.
Pennsylvania dads Scott McKenzie and Jeremy Uhrich have been spending the pandemic baking cookies for caregivers.
Stuart Bee got into trouble on his pleasure boat off the Florida coast. Luckily, a ship was able to save him and bring him back to safety.
Florida's Cory Schneider gifted a car to stranger in need, substitute teacher Mark Selby. Selby is now planning to build a home for children.
Linda Tutt High School in Texas has opened a grocery store on the campus, and teens can get food for doing good deeds.
Justin Timberlake heard a Tennessee teen with cerebral palsy, Jake Stitt, needed a wheechair-accessible van, and donated $35k.
Momofuku founder David Chang has donated his jackpot win on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire to hospitality workers.
Though most modern-day women generally don't like to think of themselves as damsels in distress, when fate lands them in peril, sometimes the only thing to do is call for a knight in shining armor to come to the rescue. For one American woman, that knight turned out to be a Canadian ranger. Lynn Marchessault […]
When paralyzed Canadian gymnast Taylor Lindsay-Noel began a tea company, it wasn't long before Oprah was calling.
Emily Bugg and Billy Lewis didn't get to have their big wedding. So they took their 5k catering deposit and served food to the needy.
A rare CM1/2 carbonaceous chondrite meteorite worth a million bucks hits the home of Indonesian coffin maker Josua Hutagalung.
In Myanmar, rare smiling turtles have been saved from the brink of extinction thanks to conservation initiatives by the WCS and others.