Month: October 2021

Back in the year 2016, Natalie Reilly came up with the idea of letter writing almost as a coping mechanism. Her mother was recovering from nineteen rounds of chemotherapy and both of them needed something to soothe their minds. Cancer had taken away every ounce of energy and they were desperate to get it back. They rode on a sudden tide of inspiration and decided to bring back the age-old tradition of writing love letters to unsung heroes. They wanted to share tokens of love with police officers, firefighters, officers of the law – people who dedicate their lives to …

The housing crisis in California is hitting the lower-income groups harder than it had ever done before. The rent prices are soaring and there seems to be no respite. The homeless encampments in Oakland are on the rise and there are so many that it is becoming the whole make-up of the city.

However, there is hope.

A community of housed and unhoused residents is changing the attitudes of common people towards homeless encampments. This community is settled at the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Way and 37th Street. It is called 37MLK.

37MLK is a vacant lot in …

Picture this: you are roaming around the bookstore, looking for a book written by your favorite author, when lo and behold, you find a small little kitten! You pause for a moment and ponder, “Does this cat belong to the owner of the bookstore?” Then, you decide to let the thought pass and look around… to find more cats! No, you aren’t just imagining things, you most probably are at Otis & Clementine’s Books and Coffee!

The bookstore is located near Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada, and has devised an innovative way to get people to adopt these homeless cats. …