Must-have cooking apps if you’re a food lover — I don’t intend to turn us all into chefs, but I promise you that if you’re anything like me — a 40-year-old single guy living with his cat — this story will help you overcome the fast food diet. If you are interested in technology and love food, then you…

And dodged a bullet at the heart of Europe. — On the day of the Brussels bombings, I was on line 6 toward the city center. Death was coming my way on line 5. I alighted one station before we ever met. Overture It’s 7:58 a.m., March 22, 2016; I’m running late to catch the streetcar that crosses the Charles-Quint boulevard…

This is the untold true story of how I dumped my teaching career to become a decorated army specialist — Life has been a rollercoaster, and I had to make several mind-blowing decisions in several touch-and-go moments. Thus, my growth curve shows how real life can astound you in ways fiction cannot aspire. Childhood dream My family members are heirs to a tradition that saw them go into the priesthood or become…

These tragic deaths remind us that life often trumps fiction — Benjamin Franklin reminds us that nothing can be considered certain in this world except death and taxes. Therefore, the certainty of mortality and the uncertainty of the hour of death are often an existential burden throughout our lives. In this article, I will look at some of the most astonishing…

Located an hour’s drive from Lisbon, this medieval town is one of Europe’s most beautiful and well-kept secrets. — Have you ever considered visiting Portugal? I’m sure you have. And I’m betting that when you think of travel destinations, you think of popular locations like Lisbon, Porto, or the Algarve. But what if I told you about a quaint town on a hill about an hour’s drive from Lisbon…

What can you do to promote a healthier lifestyle — You’ve probably heard the statistics. You may even be familiar with them: The National Cancer Institute of the United States (NCI) estimates that one out of two men and one out of three women will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetimes. Over 1.9 million new cancer cases will be…

You’ll live a better life if you embrace your ultimate goals like Sebastian Vettel — I watched Sebastian Vettel’s retirement video yesterday, and his words impacted me so profoundly that I immediately dropped a post on LinkedIn. That post served as the foundation for this essay, and I’m doing my best to convey all of the thoughts that came to me after seeing the four-minute…

But they, too, experience sorrow and pain — The first primates used as laboratory animals were captured from their natural habitat in the tropical forests of Central and West Africa in the 1920s and brought to the United States. The dark age of animal testing Poachers would slaughter entire families to kidnap the infants. Baby chimpanzees were snatched from their habitat, ferried across the…