Tag: Life & Tradition

Woman Abandoned by Fiancé for Refusing Abortion Finds Soulmate in the Son of the Pregnancy Center’s CEO Who Helped Her

A full-time student and part-time waitress, pressured to abort her son by her fiancé, chose life for her child despite being left alone, pregnant, and afraid. Having made the right decision, she not only found crucial support at a pregnancy resource center but eventually turned to God and had her life transformed. Today, Faith-Ann Dalton, 27,…


Ranchers Since 1878: Dad With Over 100,000 Acres Says He’ll Pass It on Intact to One of His Kids

When this Idaho-based rancher family’s six children reach the age of nine, they become bonafide cowboys and girls. It was their third great-grandfather, Frank Carl Herman Bedke, who started ranching in 1878, and now their father, Ryan Bedke, a fifth-generation rancher, is working hard to carry on the practice the traditional way. Thirty-nine-year-old Bedke lives with…


The Raggedy Boys’ Bard: Horatio Alger and the American Dream

For 50 years, his name was a household word. Horatio Alger Jr. (1832–1899) was the creator and chief proponent of the “rags to riches” story. Once his writing career took off, he put out over a hundred novels, most of them aimed at adolescents. They were tales of street urchins and poor young men who…


Police Officer and His Wife Adopt Abandonded Newborn Just Months After Adopting Their First Daughter

An Indiana police officer and his wife, who struggled for years to conceive, adopted their second daughter: a newborn baby girl who was anonymously surrendered to a local hospital. The devout couple thanks God for gifting them the family of their dreams in his perfect timing. Nurse Shelby Marie Faltynski, 35, and her husband, police…


‘Finish Like Judy!’ 96-Year-Old Swimmer and Gold Medalist Shares Her Secret to Health

A lifelong swimmer who is still competing at the age of 96 has become an inspiration for not allowing her age to stop her from taking home gold. Native New Yorker Judith “Judy” Young was born in Brooklyn. She has two sons, aged 68 and 70, and today she lives in an independent senior community in…


Pregnant Mom’s Migraine Turns out to Be Brain Tumor, Says Newborn Baby Saved Her Life

A British mom who suffered a miscarriage two years ago is now praising her newborn son for saving her life after doctors discovered her migraines were due to a brain tumor that was growing fast because of her pregnancy hormones. Abi Naylor, 28, was rushed to Macclesfield Hospital, Cheshire, in Northwest England, a week after…


A Pair of Eagles: The Lindberghs’ 7,000-Mile Trek From America to Japan

During two days in May of 1927, Charles Augustus Lindbergh stepped from obscurity into history. His 3,600-mile transatlantic flight from New York to Paris is legendary. Flying solo for 33.5 hours, he became known as the “Lone Eagle.” Seven months after that fateful flight, the young aviator met someone who would become his partner as…


PHOTOS: 10 Tallest and Most Powerful Horse Breeds on the Planet

In the 21st-century draft horses seem to stand as a nostalgic symbol of times gone by, but it’s easy to forget these gentle giants once played crucial roles throughout warfare and agriculture. When larger farms began to emerge in the United States during the 19th century, there was a need for stronger, more powerful working…


Bridging the Golden Gate Strait: Joseph Strauss and the Building of the Golden Gate Bridge

Today, the Golden Gate Bridge has come to symbolize San Francisco, and it is the universally recognizable icon of that great port city. Although conceived as a way to move people from place to place, it has become a destination in its own right. Spanning the Golden Gate Strait, a place of stunning natural beauty,…


This Is Life on the World’s Most Remote Island With Just 138 People, a Shop, a School, and a Pub

A woman who lives on the world’s most remote inhabited island with her husband and kids is sharing their unique life as one family among 138 inhabitants descending from just seven families, with only one shop, one school, and a pub. Kelly Green, 32, lives on Tristan da Cunha, one of a cluster of remote volcanic…