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In this issue of The Upworthiest, Tod Perry shares the last performance of a woman who spent twenty years being Stevie Nicks, sung from hospice for the people who loved her. Plus, the airplane-seat impression that has every generation seeing itself, and the sentence doctors say they never ignore.
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Singer in hospice performs soulful ‘Landslide’ cover ‘one last time’ | ||
She was Stevie Nicks in a Fleetwood Mac cover band for over 20 years. | ||
By Tod Perry | ||
The final performance of singer Marirose Powell has people welling up all over TikTok because of the soulful way she sang “Landslide” by Fleetwood Mac while in hospice care. Powell performed as Stevie Nicks in a Fleetwood Mac cover band for over twenty years, so the song was a major part of her life. | ||
A week before she died from cancer, some friends showed up at her home and asked what she would like to sing. “And she said, ‘I want to sing ‘Landslide.’ And so she sang ‘Landslide’ one last time,” Powell’s daughter-in-law, Sam Xenos, who posted the video on TikTok, told PEOPLE. | ||
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Woman nails how each generation behaves after taking their seat on a flight | ||
Boomers and Gen X-ers could not be more opposite. | ||
By Cecily Knobler | ||
Not all generational stereotypes can be neatly boxed and tied with a bow, but there is something quite fun about trying. Obviously, the decade in which we’re born can’t predict our behavior. But, more often than not, it can help us understand the parental rearing and social norms that appear in different generations. | ||
Kristen Almasan (@kristalmasan) is a self-described “Millennial mom” who makes funny online content. In a recently viral clip, she shows herself on a plane with a chyron reading, “Every generation on a flight.” For many, it’s uncannily accurate. | ||
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The last slice. 😹🍕
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Doctors say this one specific sentence from male patients is a massive red flag | ||
According to medical professionals, this seemingly innocent phrase is actually one of the biggest red flags in medicine. | ||
By Adam Albright-Hanna | ||
Medical professionals spend years learning how to diagnose complex diseases. Sometimes, however, the biggest warning sign isn’t on a chart or a scan but a single sentence. When doctors on Reddit were asked to discuss the biggest red flags they’ve seen in patients, one answer came up again and again. It’s when a (male) patient says: “I feel fine, but my wife made me come in.” | ||
It sounds like a joke about stubborn husbands. Doctors treat it as a clinical pearl, meaning a rule of thumb that holds up in practice. | ||
“Every time. [Myocardial infarction] and cancer being the most common diagnoses, in my experience,” one medical professional wrote. | ||
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An Upworthiest Poll
You have just sat down on the plane. First move?
Yesterday’s Results
In yesterday's issue, we shared Tod Perry's story on the nine classic grandma sayings young folks may not understand.
And we asked: When someone says "the whole shebang," what was a shebang? Only 10.5% of you had it.
A wagon wheel (5.1%)
A church picnic (13.3%)
A brass band (71.2%)
A rough hut or shelter (10.5%) 🏆
A shebang was a rough hut or shanty, the kind of hastily thrown-together shelter Civil War soldiers slept in, and Walt Whitman used the word that way in his wartime notes. A full 71.2% of you went with brass band, which honestly sounds like more fun.
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Mom and empty nester shares her tips for decluttering her home. | ||
51-year-old empty nester who struggled to declutter her house shares 8 tips that finally worked | ||
“Shoes are put away immediately upon walking in the house.” | ||
By Emily Shiffer | ||
Deep cleaning and decluttering a home is a daunting task, especially for empty nesters. After spending a lifetime creating memories and living together under one roof, doing a big declutter can take an emotional toll. | ||
It’s a milestone that many empty nesters know the sting of. And in a cleaning community on Reddit, a 51-year-old mom and recent empty nester shared her experience cleaning and decluttering her home after entering this new phase of life. | ||
“In my entire life, my house has always been messy. I mean, I didn’t have a disaster-level situation going on, but if someone dropped by unannounced, it would’ve been super embarrassing,” she shared. “When my kids were younger, we had a housekeeper because I just couldn’t keep up. Now that we’re empty nesters, I realized I never really learned how to keep house.” | ||
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