He’s a security guard. I work in nuclear security. The pandemic swept away my sense that we can really protect the ones we love from anything. My father protects for a living, but he is invisible by design. For more than two decades, he watched the halls of a shopping …
Read More »Fathers Health Tied to Pregnancy Loss
Conditions like hypertension, high cholesterol, obesity and diabetes in a father may affect whether a pregnancy reaches full term. A father’s poor health before conception may increase the risk for pregnancy loss, a new study suggests. Researchers analyzed records from an employee insurance database that included data on 958,804 pregnancies …
Read More »Inspired By His Father’s Grit, MyNEWS’ Founder Grew A Newsstand Into A Household Name
MyNEWS recently made the news for its plans to bring a popular South Korean convenience store known as CU into Malaysia. The launch is planned for early 2021, with about 30-50 stores to be opened in the first year, and 500 within 5 years. Even before this recent news, however, …
Read More »A Son’s Future, a Father’s Final Down
BEFORE THE EVER AFTERBy Jacqueline Woodson Zachariah Johnson Jr. (ZJ) is living a 12-year-old boy’s dream: His father is a star professional football player, he lives in a comfortable home in the suburbs with a half basketball court upstairs, he has a trio of friends who always show up at …
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