Houston man fosters 7 golden retrievers while healing from Parkinson’s disease
“They make me smile when I don’t feel like smiling, and they make me feel needed.”
Jeffrey Weiss, a professor at Texas Chiropractic College, is finding joy and purpose again after his Parkinson’s disease diagnosis by caring for foster golden retrievers.
Weiss began experiencing Parkinson’s symptoms seven years ago and embarked on a journey to find healing through medication and the help of some very good pups. With his wife of 38 years, Yvonne, he has welcomed seven goldens into their home in the past year.
“Our home has also been filled with the joy of animals. Our last two dogs, Molly and Chloe, a golden mix and an Aussie, lived wonderful, full lives of 14 years,” Weiss told Upworthy. “Once our hearts healed, Yvonne and I began fostering golden retrievers through the Golden Beginnings Golden Retriever Rescue here in Houston.”
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Over 50 countries grow coffee, and each one produces something genuinely distinct. So why does nearly every cup in America taste the same? The answer comes down to three things - and none of them is your fault. |
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Put those three together and you get the coffee most of us have been drinking our whole lives: the same few origins, roasted past recognition, gone stale on a shelf. If you've ever wondered why coffee never quite lives up to how it smells - you're not crazy. You've just never tasted the good stuff. |
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More than 200,000 coffee lovers have already made the switch. |
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Behind every proud smile is a child who took a chance and a parent who believed in them. Congrats, Georgie! 🏆🎂
The finely shredded cheese sprinkled on Olive Garden dishes is not parmesan.
People are shocked to learn the cheese grated freely at Olive Garden isn’t actually Parmesan
“Olive Garden has been lying to you and you don’t even know it.”
One of the best things about Olive Garden (besides the breadsticks) is the finely hand-shredded Parmesan cheese that gets piled liberally on top of every soup, salad, and pasta dish they serve. Of course, servers leave it to the customer to decipher the amount each dish gets topped with.
And it’s the pile of fluffy goodness that has become a signature for the restaurant chain. But people are just finding out that what they thought was Parmesan cheese (also known as Parmigiano Reggiano) being sprinkled on their food—is actually not Parmesan.
Thanks to Internet sleuths and former Olive Garden employees, the trade secret about the cheese they really use has finally been revealed.
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Cecily Knobler and Tom Nesbitt pose for a kindergarten photo.
40 years after grade school, Gen X friends reunited. Their shared childhood crush was the only guy there.
Wait, you were in love with him too?
In every group of friends, you need a pragmatist, an anything-goes-er, a salt-of-the-earther, and a historian. I’m the latter, which can be tough because people don’t always like cameras, tape recorders, or people with notepads in their faces. But if I didn’t stick to my guns, you wouldn’t be reading this.
Each archetype was represented in my group of childhood besties. This might be one of the reasons we have stayed close for decades. We have been linked by an invisible pink, glittered string that has threaded in and out of our lives as we played kickball, went roller-skating, had epiphanies, got/lost boyfriends, and, for most of us, moved out of Waco, Texas.
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