Dreams of Thanksgiving Past, Present, Future #thanksgiving #dreamsofthanksgiving #family Thanksgiving Holiday is this week in America. I know many are in a rush to finish the preparations of the big meal. But some, if not just as many are preparing for a more sad time. The homeless, those who are far from family

Chhan and his wife, Stella, came to Orange County as refugees from Cambodia in 1979. Since then, they’ve worked side by side every morning to serve doughnuts at their Pacific Coast Highway shop – until recently.

A highly anticipated meeting happens Friday night. It's not the inner-city showdown between Adams and Washington under the lights; instead, it marks the first time the Eagles' honorary captain joins them on the sidelines. He's a toddler from New York state. "It's the same as having an 18-year-old or 17-year-old captain. It's really the same thing. Treat them no differently. He's one of us. He's a part of the team," said Ira Armstead and Jackson Joyce, key members of the Adams offense.

When we think back to our childhood, many of the memories we have probably center around the family home. Although some people may have moved from one location to another, they always had that home-base where they can feel comfortable with their family. In fact, they often refer to it as the ‘family home’ and it is a tradition that is sometimes passed down from one generation to the next. It is a part of our past and in many cases, it shapes who we are today.

'One hour. 200+ people. One stock room, emptied. THAT is community, friends.'

An 8-year-old Florida boy wanted to raise money for a family friend who is battling an aggressive form of childhood cancer. So he and his mother went to a Home Depot for supplies to build a lemonade stand, except they received a lot more than that. Dawn Redmon and her son, Christian, called the Home Depot store in Apopka with the hope that they'd considering making some sort of donation or giving a discount on the items to build the lemonade stand.

A 4-year-old girl helped save her family from a burning home in the Paxon neighborhood of Jacksonville's Westside on Thursday afternoon. The pint-sized hero alerted her mother, two other adults and her 2-year-old brother that their house was on fire, allowing them all to get out safely. Mesha Farland was the first person to see the fire break out about 1:30 p.m. inside the home on Rhonda Street near West First Street.

Five weeks ago, Brody Allen’s parents were told that their 2-year-old son’s rare form of brain cancer meant he had two months to live. The boy’s family realized that he probably wouldn’t be able to enjoy one more Christmas. So they decided to celebrate early, putting up a tree and decorations, and their Ohio neighborhood followed suit. “In his mind it is just Christmas,” said McKenzie Allen, 21, Brody’s sister. “He woke up one day and the Christmas tree was out. He doesn’t know it isn’t really Christmas. He is just enjoying it.”

When Tae Cho proposed to his girlfriend Lindsey Crouch on a Florida beach, he thought the moment would be lost forever. But not only did a kindhearted stranger photograph the romantic proposal, she posted the pictures on Facebook in a bid to find the couple - and it worked. Now the Knoxville duo have Heather Swanner's perfect shots, along with a handful of grainy smartphone camera images taken by family members.

Bethesda -- the makers of The Elder Scrolls and Fallout -- has granted the wish of a 12-year-old boy named Wes with a rare type of cancer to see Fallout 76 by bringing the game to his house to play months before release. Wes has been in a fight against stage-four neuroblastoma for most of his life after being diagnosed with the form of cancer at just five years old.

Custodian Herman Gordon has been spreading kindness at Bristol University for more than 11 years. This summer, students of the UK university decided it was time to return the favor. Students launched a crowdfunding campaign to send Gordon, originally from Jamaica, on a weeklong trip to Kingston to see his family for the first time in nearly a decade. "I started it because I know everybody loves Herman for his happy energy," said medical student Hadi Al-Zubaidi, who had the idea for the fundraiser. "I thought sending him to his home country of Jamaica would be a beautiful way of giving back for all that he does."

Ben and Jackee Belnap had saved $1,060 (£810) to pay back a debt but found it destroyed.

Grief-stricken after his daughter’s death, the chief of Piplantri village declared that every newborn girl would have a tree planted in her honour. In the process, he sowed the seeds of cultural, environmental and political revolution. Shyam Sunder Paliwal knows his way through the trees. Pushing through low branches, he reaches a shady copse where a profusion of different varieties grow. Every evening, he comes here on his motorbike to see one tree in particular...

A 100-year-old woman has married her 74-year-old partner after 30 years together. Norah and Malcolm Yates tied the knot at a hotel near their home in Prestatyn, Denbighshire, on Tuesday. The bride, a former school cook, had been twice married and widowed when she met divorced Mr Yates at a dance in the 1980s and they have "been together ever since".

Last month, Skye Savren-McCormick got to be the flower girl in a wedding. To prepare, she practiced walking with a little basket in her living room. Even so, on the day of the wedding the 3-year-old still took a big fistful of petals and dropped them on the ground before taking her first step down the aisle. And the wedding guests could barely hold it together.

Hundreds of thousands of people have died in Africa and South Asia due to the widespread scourge of counterfeit medicines. So social entrepreneur Bright Simons founded a company to use technology to let people verify a medicine’s authenticity with a simple text message.

'Chance for a new start', the Croatian government have gotten creditors on board a plan to erase the debts of some 60,000 poorest citizens. The “fresh start” scheme targets less than 1 percent of the entire debt, but is hoped to boost the economy in the long-term.

The generous gambler won the cash on a fruit machine after betting just $20.

An estranged brother and sister were reunited - after reportedly matching with each other on Tinder. Erik de Vries and Josephine Egberts had not seen each other since their parents split up in 1999, when Erik and his twin brother moved to Belgium with their father and Josephine remained in Holland where she had grown up with their mother. Erik had tried to track his sister down in the intervening years without success.

YOU’D BE HARD pressed to find someone who hasn’t been effected by cancer in some way or another. But what do you even say when you discover a loved one is going through it? Emily McDowell, a former creative director, decided to create a range of cards to help you find some words. McDowell herself went through nine months of chemo to beat Stage 3 Hodgkin’s lymphoma at just 24.

Birthrate for teenagers across state plunge by 40 percent from 2009 to 2013, rate of abortions fall by 42 percent.

RICHMOND — More than 400 years after Pocahontas, arguably the most famous Pamunkey Indian, saved the life of Englishman John Smith, the tribe once again made history Thursday by becoming the first Indian tribe in Virginia to be recognized by the federal government.

The mother of a little boy who accidentally smashed a historic jug at an Ipswich museum says the family is "thrilled" it has been fixed.

The woman, Amber Pangborn, 35, of Oroville, made a hasty decision to take an unfamiliar shortcut while driving to her parents’ house after going into labor. Instead, she got lost. “I thought we were going to die,” she told KCRA-TV. “And there was no cell service, there was no ... there was nothing.” But Pangborn’s baby wouldn’t wait and she had no choice but to give birth alone. She named her daughter Marisa. And then came the bees and mosquitoes.

LEGO’s toy dominance over the last half century has been built on petroleum-based plastics. The toy company is investing hundreds of millions of dollars dedicated to research, development and implementation of new, sustainable, raw materials to manufacture LEGO elements as well as packaging materials. By 2030, the Danish-based toy company says that their plastic bricks will no longer be made from the oil-based plastic in the 60 billion blocks LEGO produces each year.

The decision by Huff Post to dump Trump into entertainment section draws cheers and jeers.

Reading to kids is not the way most 16-year-olds would spend their morning, but Ryan Traynor is not most kids. The California teenager was just 11-years-old when he started volunteering through his local library, going into schools and reading to children, to earn a Boy Scouts of America merit...

Kristen Bell helped make one special girl named Avery a princess of Arendelle.

Kids can get wrapped up in the smallest things. If they are different in any way, it can become something other kids will pick on. Making them feel different or that they stand out in any way can hurt their self-esteem and some kids can’t take any more than they already have.Sarah Ivermee found a solution when her friend’s daughter was uncomfortable with wearing her hearing aid to school.

To celebrate his birthday, Tim and his family hold an annual hug-a-thon at his restaurant, Tim's Place, to raise money for Firefighters Random Acts, a nonprofit run by Albuquerque firefighters.

He wanted to tie his own shoes. Sometimes the best ideas come wrapped in the simplest of sentences like that.

This ad campaign by Great Nations Eat sheds light on this issue by encouraging people in other countries to donate to hungry Americans.

The picture was among the hundreds snapped the night of Cooper Bassett's wedding. In the picture, you can see the former Tuttle High football standout turned Oklahoma State football standout. He is hugging a little girl. She has oodles of curly red hair. She is wearing a sparkly purple dress. You can't see her face, but you can see his. And in his expression, you can sense how much Cooper Bassett and Taylor Brandt love each other. She is his Taylor, and he is her Cooper.

"Parents can return part-time, full-time, or return and then go back out as needed."

Jaden Hayes is determined not to let sadness overcome him or anyone else