A graduate of Wheaton College with a degree in literature, Loren also adores language. He has served as assistant editor for Plugged In magazine and copy editor for Wildlife Photographic magazine.
A graduate of Wheaton College with a degree in literature, Loren also adores language. He has served as assistant editor for Plugged In magazine and copy editor for Wildlife Photographic magazine. Most days find him crafting copy for corporate and small-business clients, but he also occasionally indulges in creative writing. His short fiction has appeared in a number of anthologies and magazines. Loren currently lives in south Florida with his wife and three children.
Eleven-year-old Amey Hogan of Shropshire, England, thinks everyone should at least wear a helmet when out on wheels. She has good reason to say so. On June 26, she was riding her bike to school when a van struck her.
Thanks to the help of Prosthetics in Motion, an office specializing in high-tech artificial limbs, they’ve helped Moshe do something that would’ve once seemed impossible: run.
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Kayley Burke of Brisbane, Australia, wished that her child could’ve avoided the varicella virus. In June 2016, she penned a Facebook post describing the plight of her youngest child, then-11-month-old Elijah. The then-11-month-old baby had come down with chickenpox -- and he’d needed to be hospitalized.
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A thief decided to do make a wrong right even though the transgression occurred more than four decades ago. In July, Liverpool’s Belle Vale Shopping Centre received a handwritten note with £5 in it. Why? He has stolen two bars of chocolate in 1975.
Comedic genius Robin Williams had a reputation for keeping the laughs rolling in real life, and he liked to invent characters just to see if he could make pal Billy Crystal laugh. It always worked.
For one Chicago school teacher, her story about the struggles her students faced turned into an unexpected windfall. Twenty-seven-year-old Kimber Bermudez was on a Southwest flight from the Windy City to her childhood home in Florida when she struck up a conversation with her seatmate.