BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM For millions living with age-related macular degeneration, seeing the world head-on becomes an exercise in frustration. Faces blur, road signs fade, and once-clear scenes dissolve into a grey smudge at the center of vision. Existing treatments can only slow the damage, but sadly not reverse it. That may soon…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Let’s be honest. Most of us have habits we wish we could kick. Maybe it’s venting too much after a stressful day, putting off that one task for tomorrow (again), or chatting about a coworker’s awkward lunchroom behavior. We often see these behaviors as signs of weakness, laziness, or…
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Snow_Queen_(248725985).jpeg For around two decades, I lived in London’s central Clerkenwell area, a place with a rich history of ghosts, supernatural phenomena and other strange occurrences. And, as we near the Yuletide season, there are literary associations with Charles Dickens, the ghosts of whose characters sometimes seem to permeate the streets and alleyways. Barely 10…
Authorities hunted Saturday (Dec. 6) for the last of three inmates who escaped from a Louisiana jail. The men slipped away after removing concrete blocks from a deteriorating wall. As of Monday (Dec. 8), Keith Eli remains on the run, while another inmate is back in custody, and a third is deceased. “We would prefer…
Lil Scrappy and Bambi are in their peaceful era! The rapper cleared the air on Monday after a viral video showed him and his children’s mother kicking it at Brandy and Monica’s ‘The Boy Is Mine’ tour show. She didn’t hesitate to respond in his comment section while fans and celebs also gathered to applaud…
New York City high school senior Hiram Carrero was jailed Friday on a federal arson charge. Police say the 18-year-old set a fire that severely burned a sleeping subway passenger. The fire, which happened last Monday morning, is the latest in a string of incidents of people being set on fire on public transit across…
Janice Combs is finally speaking out, days after a Netflix docuseries, ‘Sean Combs: The Reckoning,’ tore into her son’s rise to the top. One of the interviews included a story about Diddy allegedly popping off and slapping his mother. But Mama Combs is saying that ain’t so while the internet waits to hear from the rest…
“The strongest people are the ones who are still kind after the world tore them apart.” ~Raven Emotion A few months ago, I stopped being friends with my best friend from childhood, whom I had always considered like my brother. It was a tough decision, but I had to make it. In the past five…
Ari Fletcher and Taina Williams‘ latest link-up has internet users calling them the “duo we never knew we needed.” RELATED: Twinning! Ari Fletcher & Taina Williams Popped Out In The Same Look & Social Media Is Sharing Thoughts (PHOTOS) Ari Fletcher & Taina Williams Latest Link-Up Over the weekend, Instagram user @livebitez shared footage from an…
Congratulations are in order for Asian Doll and Jugg, her daughter’s father, as she revealed that she got engaged on her birthday. RELATED: Aht Aht! Asian Doll Claps Back Alongside The Internet After Social Media User Says Rihanna Has “Three Babies & No Ring” Asian Doll Reveals She Got Engaged On Her Birthday On Sunday, December…
