I then got to the point in January 2017 where I was ready to set up an Instagram page for my cheesecake business, which I’d called Pleesecakes. I wanted to make a bit of money on the side, to supplement my house painting and decorating work. But I didn’t have a business plan, I had no experience and I was still working out of my parents kitchen. My vision was that I would make four or five cakes a month....
I first experimented with drugs at the age of eleven. For my entire life, I always had the mindset of: “Never do anything bad, never do anything wrong.” But one major event changed my entire process of thinking. In 2006, I experienced sexual abuse. Even at such a young age, I knew what had happened was not okay, but I didn’t tell anyone. After that, it was like something switched in my mind....
Speaking on Busted Open Radio, CM Punk stated he refrains from talking too much about WWE. But whenever he does, it’s always the truth. CM Punk revealed he never received time off from WWE to properly heal from his injuries and surgeries. He saw many of his colleagues suffer due to long-term injuries, and didn’t want to go down the same path. The former WWE champion disclosed the physical toll prompted him to ultimately quit....
So I was mainly focused on sports and living life in high school. I’m 6'1", so I balanced playing football with basketball, and while I didn’t do everything exactly by the rules, I wanted to get good grades and graduate on time. Football was definitely always going to be part of my life. When I was leaving high school, my friend and I actually had plans to make video clips of us playing football to send off to different teams, but we didn’t end up doing that and I eventually picked up a job house cleaning at a hospital....
I tested positive for COVID-19 on November 9 and I quarantined straight away. My daughters Rebekah and Nicole kept calling and checking on me, but on November 14, they said that I was sounding worse. I was coughing and really tired, I guess I wasn’t getting enough oxygen because I was starting to hallucinate. I thought someone was in my house and I kept telling my daughters to call the police because I was seeing this person who wasn’t actually there....
I actually thought I would have been married by thirty, however, thirty came and went and by fifty-eight, I was still unmarried. But, I always believed I was marriage material, and never considered otherwise. I am a big proponent of vision and vision boards. I write my vision for my life in twenty-year time frames. After the first twenty years past, I had accomplished everything on that particular vision except marriage....
In 2014, I moved to London, England, to study business in college. I was an international student, I didn’t have any friends or family around me, and I couldn’t speak English well. That’s when I began having anxiety attacks; I felt very lonely, became homesick, and developed depression. At the time, I didn’t have any of my dogs around me, which was difficult. I had asked my dad if I could have a dog in London but he was against the idea, as we did not know if I was going to stay in the U....
From an early age I could feel others’ emotions and had an understanding of other people’s experience, but I suppressed this because I wanted to try and fit in. At 18 I got a job in London. It was incredibly stressful and I soon burnt out. At 21 I developed quinsy—an abscess in my throat. I left my job at an investment bank, got married and had a son. I started working in property development....
What followed, according to several sources who were in the room last Thursday afternoon, was a jut-jawed, disjointed discourse with a tinge of diatribe and a crescendo of podium pounding. The president dismissed questions about his administration’s counterterrorism actions–or lack of them–before September 11 as mere Democratic partisanship. “I sniff some politics in the air,” he scoffed. Then he wandered off to the Middle East, recounting a blunt Oval Office conversation with Ariel Sharon....
I speak from experience. I struggled with anorexia and bulimia, a binge eating disorder and then depression for more than a decade—between 2003 and 2015. It’s hard to believe looking at me now, because I am a healthy, happy professional woman, but I was once tortured by voices in my head, ones that told me that if I wanted even the smallest chance of amounting to anything, I had to be pretty, skinny and beautiful....
I stood up to get my iPad out of my bag but I stumbled in the aisle as the train sped up. We started leaning, and I grabbed the luggage rack above my head, holding on with both hands. We couldn’t be tipping, I thought. Trains don’t tip. My last memory is the sound of my own scream. Amtrak 188 was going 106 miles per hour when it derailed on a curve designed for a maximum of 50 miles per hour on May 12, 2015....
I have been an obstetrician-gynecologist (OB-GYN) for 10 years, and so often when somebody comes in to see me for an annual exam and talks about their periods, it’s like opening Pandora’s Box. When I ask about sex, there is often a pause, so I ask if sex hurts, and they tell me that it’s miserable experience. I feel like there is a culture where people don’t know how to access information and are typically only taught how not to get pregnant....
Despite arriving in England with a strong reputation, the Ajax ‘Player of the Year’ for the 2021-22 season divided opinion. Many were skeptical about Martinez as he is just 5 feet 9 inches and deemed the player too small to succeed in the Premier League. The Argentine international had a miserable start to life at Manchester United, losing his first two games at his new club. However, he has turned things around since and was awarded the ‘Man of the Match’ award in United’s last two games, helping his side beat Liverpool and Southampton....
He spoke in detail about the places he was going to visit and was quite enthusiastic in speaking to his viewers about his plans. “I’ve got so much cool stuff I wanna do” - Minecraft YouTuber Tubbo on going to the US Upon being asked by a viewer in his Twitch chat to stay in the UK, Tubbo refused and said he had “so much cool stuff” he wanted to do....
After making what could be his last United appearance as a late substitute in the Europa League final on Wednesday, Rooney revealed he has “lots of offers from England and abroad” and is close to reaching a decision on his future. The forward struggled to establish himself in Jose Mourinho’s plans for United this season, starting only 15 Premier League games and scoring five goals. Robson, formerly United’s captain and now a club ambassador, knows the current skipper well and thinks he will opt to join a new team for the 2017-18 season as a result of his reduced role....
For decades, I have woven my twin passions of literature and educating adolescents into a rewarding practice of reading with young people. I believe in the power of literature to move us and to transform us. That belief led me to become a high school English teacher and eventually, a college professor in Minnesota, a teacher of future teachers of literature. In my own classrooms, I have seen the power in Art Spiegelman’s “Maus”, recently banned from school libraries in Tennessee, as students come to grip with the horrors of the Holocaust in a classroom full of trust and bravery....
But even as I grew up, the gut instinct a lot of people have telling them that they want to have children just wasn’t there for me. I wanted to get married, but I never really imagined children being part of my future. That feeling has never changed. Up until my mid-20s, I would always say “I don’t think I want children, but that might change.’’ Because previously, when I had given a firmer answer, people were so quick to say I was wrong and would change my mind when I got older, married or when my body clock started ticking....
When I arrived, it turned out that the kittens’ mother had been hit by a car. I couldn’t just leave them, they were teeny tiny newborns. When I was in my car with them, I started calling animal shelters, explaining that I didn’t really know what to do with them. Everywhere I called said that they would have to put the kittens to sleep because at such a young age they require too much in the way of resources and time to keep alive....
Within a couple of months of opening in 2015, one of our volunteers found Maverick in somebody’s yard. He had been hit by a car twice—weeks apart we were eventually told—and was paralysed and couldn’t move. The idea of him coming in scared me. I wondered how I was going to handle it and whether we would be able to help this dog. And then I met him and fell in love....
But now, as people are venturing back out into the world, it seems many would like to forget that we are in a pandemic. I have treated COVID-19 patients in two different hot spots in the past six months, and even as we’ve reached the milestone of 200,000 deaths from this virus, healthcare workers have drifted out of the spotlight. As a surgeon in the San Francisco Bay Area in California, I was transfixed by the news, perpetually scrolling through Twitter as the case numbers in the U....
