Mary Ellen Miller

Mom, Grandma, wife, retired Teacher, beach and dog lover! I find Twitter to be sort of amazing and sort of awful...

[National Park Service @NatlParkService]

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[Mary Ellen Miller @Millermarlowe]

@MeCookieMonster Same Cookie Monster, same…🍪🍪🍪

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

Sometimes humans amaze me.

Thank you to these two for saving a life

[Seán Ono Lennon @seanonolennon]

Life must be a nightmare for the easily offended.

[sᥕᥱᥱ𝗍 𝗍һіᥒg❤️‍🔥(𝙰𝚜𝚒𝚊) @55SweetThing]

“No one picks like a Nashville picker picks!”😅

Dolly Parton and Carol Burnett at the Grand Ole Opry (1979) ❤️‍🔥RIP

[Mary Ellen Miller @Millermarlowe]

🤣🤣

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

He didn't want a room full of crying people, so he pulled off the ultimate funeral prank

In October 2019, Shay Bradley, a 62-year-old Irish Defence Force veteran, loving father, and grandfather, was battling a long-term illness and knew his time was short. He and his son secretly recorded a hilarious audio track. As his coffin was lowered into the ground in South County Dublin, Ireland, a hidden speaker suddenly started playing the recording.

[Mary Ellen Miller @Millermarlowe]

@BamaSaltyMarine All the time….

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

You’re under no obligation to be unhappy.

[Mary Ellen Miller @Millermarlowe]

😂😂

[Gary The Snail @iLoveuHiiii]

to kill a WHAT????

[Saint Adaugoijele ✝️ @JustAdaugoijele]

A man's first time in a Catholic Church Holy Mass🥰😍....

🎥joshpray

[Today In History @historigins]

This scene changed my whole way of thinking forever

[👉M-Û-R-Č-H👈 @TheEXECUTlONER_]

Suddenly my problems don’t seem so big at the moment. 💔

“Thank you Daddy.” 😭

You’re a class act mom. All this while you are grieving too.

Well played mom. Well played.❤️

[LifeNews.com @LifeNewsHQ]

Happy World Down Syndrome Day!

This child, with an extra chromosome, is valuable and worthy of life.

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

Reese Werkhoven and his roommate Lara Russo were sitting on their recently purchased couch one night in April 2014, watching a Harry Potter movie, when the cushions started bothering him enough to do something about it. The couch was lumpy. It had been lumpy since they bought it at a Salvation Army store in New Paltz, New York, a month earlier for twenty dollars. He unzipped one of the cushions to see what was making it uncomfortable and found a small package wrapped in bubble wrap.

He later described his first thought: it might be drugs, it might be money, they were getting scared about it.

It was money.

He and Russo called their third roommate Cally Guasti in, and the three of them started finding more. Envelopes, one after another, tucked inside the cushions and inside the arms of the couch. They piled everything on a bed and counted it. The total was $40,800. Their neighbours heard the shouting from their apartment and assumed someone had won the lottery.

The three of them spent several days discussing what to do. They had real conversations about the moral question, and they admitted later that they considered keeping it. They were in college or recently graduated. None of them had much money. Forty thousand dollars was a life-changing amount. One of them said later that there were a lot of gray areas to consider.

Then Guasti found a bank deposit slip inside one of the envelopes with a woman's name on it.

Werkhoven called his mother for advice. She tracked down a phone number and texted it to him. He called the number, heard an elderly woman answer, and hung up. He called back and told her he had found something that he thought might be hers. She told him she had a lot of money in that couch and that she really needed it.

He drove with his roommates to her home the next day.

The woman, who has asked to remain anonymous, was 91 years old. She was a widow with a recently broken hip. Her family had donated the couch to the Salvation Army while she was in hospital, not knowing what was inside it. The money was decades of savings — including wages from years of work as a florist — that she had been hiding in the couch at the encouragement of her late husband, who had worried about what would happen to her after he was gone. She had slept on that couch for years. When her back problems became serious, her family replaced it with a bed and the couch went to the charity shop.

She cried when the three roommates handed her the money.

She told them that it was her husband looking down on her, and that this was supposed to happen.

She gave them a reward of one thousand dollars. They kept the couch.

The three of them — Werkhoven, Guasti, and Russo — were college students and recent graduates in upstate New York who bought a secondhand piece of furniture because they needed somewhere to sit. What they ended up with was the specific knowledge that when it actually cost them something, they did the right thing.

Werkhoven said simply: it's not our money. We didn't have any right to it.

Guasti said: at the end of the day, it wasn't ours.

There is nothing more to add to that.

Share this with someone who needs a reminder today that ordinary people make extraordinary choices all the time, without cameras or applause, because it is simply what you do.

[Mary Ellen Miller @Millermarlowe]

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[Martha 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇳🇴🇦🇴 @gwoman9810]

Watching the #WinterOlympics #figureskating always reminds me of this 😂😂

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Sylvester Stallone still has the turtles from Rocky.
They are 49 years old.

[Playteaux @Playteaux1]

Curling

[Mary Ellen Miller @Millermarlowe]

💔💔💔

[véro // ✽ @vlovesemma]

omg they did a tribute to catherine o'hara while showing the norwich terrier at the westminster dog show
HER IMPACT !!

[Reed Timmer, PhD @ReedTimmerUSA]

INSANE BOMB CYCLONE with 60 mph winds hammers the North Carolina coast with over 18 inches of snow! Supercells with water spouts were in the warm sector with #blizzard conditions all night in Emerald Isle, North Carolina. Accuweather estimates over $13 billion in damages and economic loss from this storm! This video shows my journey into the heart of the #bombcyclone including the mega #snow band in Jacksonville and WIND BAG in Emerald Isle. Extreme coverage for @accuweather

[Reed Timmer, PhD @ReedTimmerUSA]

Snow drifts 4 feet high on Emerald Isle Beach, North Carolina after #bombcyclone. Locals say it’s the biggest snowstorm since 1989. They lost power last night around 3 am during peak winds but has since been restored. This looks like the ice age has arrived. Extreme coverage for @accuweather continues