Let your childlike sense of wonder be your guide…you never know what you might find!   Nine-year-old Molly Sampson has dreamed of becoming a paleontologist for most of her life. She often hunts for fossils in Chesapeake Bay’s Calvert Cliffs, Maryland, with her father Bruce. And she’s always had one specific goal in mind: To find a tooth from a 15 million year old … [Read more...]

A wonderful documentary on Netflix called Mission: Joy – Finding Happiness in Troubled Times, illuminates the sweet, playful friendship shared by the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu and His Holiness, the Dalai Lama. Based on their 2016 collaboration, The Book of Joy, the film showcases these eighty-something spiritual masters who had been through so much, yet still managed to … [Read more...]

On Christmas Eve, Buffalo NY was being pummeled by the worst blizzard in recent memory. Snuggled at home with his wife, Alex Campagna heard frantic knocking on the door. There stood two shivering South Korean tourists hoping to borrow a shovel to dislodge their vehicle from a gigantic snowdrift. Knowing it was hopeless, Campagna invited all ten of the party inside and … [Read more...]

There is so much suffering in the world right now. Most pointedly, as the war in Ukraine slogs into its tenth month, people are facing sub-zero temperatures  with no heat, water or essential supplies. Bombs are falling. Yet both sides have ruled out a Christmas truce as soldiers battle it out in bloody trenches. Pope Francis echoed our collective distress when he broke down … [Read more...]

Edwin Lusichi, head keeper at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Nairobi, with a six-month-old orphaned baby elephant. Without their mothers, such calves have few survival skills and are vulnerable to despair. Once upon a time, when an elephant walked through  town with its keeper, the pachyderm’s trunk would tend to wreak havoc. Expressing the intelligent animal’s … [Read more...]