My family and I had been going to the beach in North Carolina a lot at that point in time and sharks weren’t even a thought in my mind. What I was actually scared of was rip currents. I was talking to my sister and her friend that day, June 2, saying how crazy it would be if we got caught by a rip current. We didn’t know that something way crazier was about to happen....
As a millennial, I come from a time where most of what I learned about beauty came from my mother. She had a system, and I loved it, but I was 13 and she was 36. I wasn’t able to see what people my age were doing. I wasn’t able to see these beauty trends. Then, as I became a teenager, the internet began to take over, with the invention of YouTube....
I felt really awkward about it but comments happened more and more often, and then, my mom saw an advert in a newspaper for lookalikes wanted for a TV show. I was really hesitant but in the end I sent in a photo. They didn’t have me on the show that year, but the following year, they called me again; I booked it and filmed it, but it never aired....
She had met a person through an online dating app and later found out that he had lied about his name and various bits of information. Although my client did not know the person’s real name, their age, or their address, she mentioned that he spoke about a family member who had a very unusual name. By searching this unusual name and looking through his family photographs, I was able to identify the real person behind the scam....
What was missing for me, where gynecology and therapy fell short, was that I gained no understanding of how my emotional relationship with my husband affected my physical relationship with him. I was still left wondering how a healthy, educated, self-aware young woman who loved her husband had inexplicably lost her sex drive. This set me on a lifelong path of exploring the true nature of sexuality. My extensive exploration included reading and researching the fields of psychology, neuroscience, meditation, and mysticism....
I can remember watching Jake Gibb play in the Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP) beach volleyball league and compete in the Olympics when I was a kid. We actually became partners in 2017 through a mutual coach; Tyler Hildebrand. When Jake was considering retiring, Tyler suggested he aim for the Tokyo Olympics in 2020 and partner with me. We met at Tyler’s house to go over our goals and see if they were aligned....
Deona Smith, the boy’s mother, posted a video of his reaction to TikTok on Saturday and wrote: “It’s been a tough two years with COVID, homeschooling, and illnesses. We deserve to treat ourselves.” The post has amassed more than 3.5 million views and thousands of comments from viewers who agreed that Smith had earned the “best mom award” for surprising her son with a trip to one of the most-visited cities in the world....
A managerial vacancy at Camp Nou will open up this summer, with Enrique announcing on Wednesday that he is to stand down at Barca. His future had been the subject of intense speculation in much the same way Wenger’s has been at Emirates Stadium this season. Candidates to replace Enrique at Barca The Frenchman’s current contract expire at Arsenal will expire at the end of the 2016-17 campaign, with no extension agreed as yet....
She’ll get no argument there. Much has been made of Dick Cheney’s conservative voting record. But it is Lynne Cheney who has been the true right-wing warrior in the family. After a stormy tenure leading the National Endowment for the Humanities, she waged a campaign to have both the NEH and its larger cousin, the National Endowment for the Arts, abolished–a stand too extreme even for Charlton Heston, who opposed her....
A memo was sent to all 32 teams warning against such behavior, showing the impact of the Tom Brady effect. Fitzgerald clowned Brady this past Monday in laughter about how he’s never seen him act that way: Brady, of course, has had a whirlwind offseason when it comes to rumors regarding his personal life. His marriage to Gisele Bundchen has been questioned ever since the quarterback left Buccaneers training camp for 11 days in mid-August....
Zara Rahim, who worked in the Office of Digital Strategy for Obama, as well as serving as the national spokeswoman for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, deleted her tweet shortly after being published, but it was seen by a number of people across social media, who shared screenshots of it. “It’s been against my moral identity to tweet this for the past four years, but, I hope he dies,” Rahim wrote in the since-deleted tweet....
The video, uploaded by Zachary Keesee or @realzacharykeesee on TikTok, showed footage of him driving through a scenic snowy mountain town. “Gastonia, North Carolina,” the on-screen text said as music played in the background. In the video, which received more than 5.8 million views and 10,500 comments since it was published on January 11, Keesee showed various clips of the snowy town and large mountainsides. But in the comments, Keesee explained that the footage was from Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland and not actually Gastonia, a city west of Charlotte....
During a recent Q&A session, ‘The Messenger’ picked the Dagestani to emerge victorious in the upcoming lightweight championship encounter. You can watch the full Q&A session below: The lightweight banger between ‘do Bronx’ and Makhachev is expected to be a thrilling contest. The primary talking point is whether Makhachev’s wrestling is good enough to neutralize Oliveira’s otherworldly jiu-jitsu. Charles Oliveira is on a 11-fight win streak which includes victories over big names like Justin Gaethje, Michael Chandler, Dustin Poirier and Tony Ferguson....
NASCAR is returning to Richmond for the second time this season and with 23 races completed, it’s safe to say that Next Gen cars have produced some high-intensity competition. Harvick recently spoke about his experience with how the Next Gen cars have performed so far this season. Describing the challenges of the Next Gen car, he said: Kevin Harvick will return to the track for this weekend’s Cup race, where he has three runner-up finishes, nine top-five and 12 top-10 finishes in the previous 16 Cup starts....
From then on, I dreamed that one day I might be able to become a rally driver. However the fact that I had no home or family support as a teenager meant that it didn’t look like it was ever going to happen. I had left home at 14 to escape a deeply dysfunctional existence and ended up staying in homeless hostels. For me, it took hitting rock bottom to sort myself out....
I feel that we all live our lives and we never picture that one day we may unexpectedly pass away. The topic of death has become a taboo, but when you experience the loss of somebody close to you, it is the most shocking thing, and you think about that person every day. After high school graduation, in the fall of 2011, I went to college at the University of Minnesota, Morris set on being a dental student....
I lived in the midwestern U.S. which tends to be more conservative in the suburbs and post-puberty, I identified primarily as a gay man. I was bullied extensively for being this really femme person who was understood to be male, and that not being acceptable. Over the past ten years I have leaned into a queer, non-binary identity and realized that is representative of my view of the world. I don’t believe in the gender binary, and because of that I can be boyish, hyper-femme and everything in between or beyond....
A Christmas cactus is an epiphytic plant, which means that it grows in pockets of organic material on trees in humid tropical rainforests in South America. What makes a Christmas cactus unique is that its exposed position in the canopies of the trees means the water within it drains away quickly. It also doesn’t grow on the ground as other terrestrial cacti do. Despite their differing habitats, Christmas cacti and other terrestrial cacti have similar challenges: to capture and store rainwater in their tissues in order to survive....
My love of food came from being really inventive in the kitchen. In the 1990s, products like gluten-free bread and almond milk had not been mass marketed yet, so I utilized ingredients like oats and nutritional yeast, before they became more mainstream. Food became my creative outlet; I learned how to make meals everyone in my family could enjoy. My mantra is: “Recipes with quality ingredients, with integrity.” My schtick is catering to dietary needs and restrictions, for example gluten-free, dairy-free, refined sugar-free, keto or plant-based diets....
I’ve had people comment on my similarity to Taylor Swift since I was about 14 years old, when she first started out. She had long, curly blonde hair and that was my “go to style” in high school. We’re about four years apart so she was 17 and looked great, but my image was compared to hers and I was bullied a lot. I have moved to the midwest now but I lived in Nashville for about a year in 2020 and I couldn’t walk down the street or into a store without getting stopped....
