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When 16-year-old Mackenzie Bearup from Alpharetta, Georgia was diagnosed with the disease Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (or Complex Regional Pain Syndrome) about six years ago, she escaped the terrible pain she felt in her knee by reading books. Bearup had been jumping on her bed while watching the TV show “American Idol” when unbearable pain shot through her knee.  Within a week, her…

Want to do something truly special for Mom this year? Help another mother across the globe save her baby from being born with HIV. mothers2mothes is a not-for-profit organization that helps pregnant women and new mothers in Africa learn how to prevent the spread of HIV to their children, saving hundreds of thousands of lives…

Would you save a suicidal person by falling 30 feet through the air with them? Robert E. Smith Jr., a 48-year-old father and grandfather from Allentown, PA, did exactly this on Monday. A 20-year-old suicidal woman climbed up a fire escape to the roof of a three-story personal care facility she was staying at in Lehigh Vallery.  News…

April is National Poetry Month, and since I posted a video on the “Don’t Quit” poem last week, I thought it would be fun to continue posting video poems every Friday of this month. I’ve always loved William Wordsworth’s poem, “Daffodils,” a perfect tribute to spring that starts with the famous lines, “I wandered lonely as a cloud….” …
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