Category: GOOD NEIGHBORS

​In my California village, just across from the park that has the statues of Yoda and Indiana Jones, there’s a huge mural emblazoned with the words “Choose Kindness.” Whenever I feel overwhelmed by current events, I wander over and gaze at it awhile, reminding myself that despite what we read in the headlines, most people…

​There’s a famous urban legend about a woman vacationing in Tijuana who adopts a stray chihuahua puppy. She takes it home and discovers — surprise! — it’s actually a sewer rat. (Why she doesn’t notice this until she gets home is never quite explained. Maybe she’d forgotten to pack her eyeglasses.) National Geographic reported an…

A teenager taking a selfie with a squirrel in the woods. What could possibly go wrong? ​ “I approached it making a clicking noise with my tongue, phone drawn,” Brian Genest, 17, told Buzzfeed . “When I got close enough, the squirrel actually tried grabbing my phone. I shook it off, then snapped this photo.”…

My grandmother Nini was a flapper and silent film star; at 90 she could still charm the socks off anyone. “If she was around when a date of mine showed up,” my sister Melissa recalls of our long-ago teenage years, “my date would be mesmerized. I’d be like, ‘Come on, let’s get going,’ and he’d…

So this pheasant flies into a pub, smacks headfirst into the wall, stuns itself silly, and falls onto the floor. As Good Samaritan r/CasualUK explained on Reddit , “My husband decided we should try and take it to a more ‘pheasant appropriate’ place in the car … The plan was to wrap the pheasant up…