Get stories worth sharing delivered to your inbox.

Boston filmmaker Beth Murphy is in Afghanistan working on a documentary. Usually her family sends her anxious messages every time there’s a bombing in Kabul. That was until the Boston Marathon attack, and then the roles were reversed. Beth’s Afghan friends were so upset by the news that they helped her make some picture postcards…

Femi Oke

Apr 24, 2013

Add to Google News

More for You

Culture

It took 343 embroiderers in 46 countries 13 years to make one absolutely stunning dress

Pets

6th grader’s science fair project answers age-old question: ‘Do cat buttholes touch everything?’

homelessness; homeless; dad; homeless dad; neighbor calls police; parenting; new parents

Dads

Someone called the police on a ‘homeless man with a baby.’ Turns out he’s just a very tired dad.

science, botany, plants, seeds, biodiversity, farming, crops, food supply, experiments, scientists

Nature

In 1879 a scientist buried bottles filled with seeds. Every 20 years, one is dug up and studied.

Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, viral, Australia, celebrity

Pop Culture

Sunbather doesn’t budge when Harry and Meghan’s entourage has to walk around her. She’s the internet’s new hero.

Get stories worth sharing delivered to your inbox.

Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.

Email *

By subscribing, you accept beehiiv's Terms of Use & Privacy Policy. Our site's Privacy Policy applies.

Featured

All Featured Stories →

Nostalgia

Crayola has retired just 13 colors in 123 years. The first 8 led to protests.

Cecily Knobler

Wholesome

His trumpet broke halfway through the national anthem. So he grabbed a mic and started singing.

Annie Reneau

Nature

A man lost track of his late dad’s beagle for 10 years. Then a Florida rescue scanned her microchip.

Adam Albright-Hanna

Culture

In 1990, Marge Simpson ‘wrote’ to Barbara Bush for ‘criticizing her family.’ It got an apology.

Heather Wake

Upworthy shares the best of humanity every day through stories that remind us of what we all have in common.

Company

Topics

Instagram
LinkedIn
Facebook
TikTok
YouTube

What People Who Get Bombed All The Time Have To Say To Boston

Tags

More for You

It took 343 embroiderers in 46 countries 13 years to make one absolutely stunning dress

6th grader’s science fair project answers age-old question: ‘Do cat buttholes touch everything?’

Someone called the police on a ‘homeless man with a baby.’ Turns out he’s just a very tired dad.

In 1879 a scientist buried bottles filled with seeds. Every 20 years, one is dug up and studied.

Sunbather doesn’t budge when Harry and Meghan’s entourage has to walk around her. She’s the internet’s new hero.

Get stories worth sharing delivered to your inbox.

Featured

Crayola has retired just 13 colors in 123 years. The first 8 led to protests.

His trumpet broke halfway through the national anthem. So he grabbed a mic and started singing.

A man lost track of his late dad’s beagle for 10 years. Then a Florida rescue scanned her microchip.

In 1990, Marge Simpson ‘wrote’ to Barbara Bush for ‘criticizing her family.’ It got an apology.