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    Sarah Medina

    Sarah Medina

    Blogger at FunkyColdReviewer

  • WATCH: Siblings' Message About Tolerance Will Make Your Day

    Two brothers who wanted to speak out for their bullied sisters are spreading a message of love and tolerance. Ostensibly because both the Hollis girls -- Meg and Alina -- have Down Syndrome. "That day changed my life forever,"?Hollis said.

  • LOOK: Lego's Response To Little Boy Will Make Your Day

    If we've learned anything from this letter about a lost toy written by a 7-year-old boy, it's that Lego's customer service department should RUN THE WORLD. According to the Sun, Luka's father,?Simon Apps, had warned him about taking the toy shopping, and sure enough, the figurine managed to fall out of the boy's pocket at a store. Luka was so upset about the loss of his new toy that he decided to?write a letter to the company explaining his misfortune.

  • WATCH: 12-Year-Olds Save Fisherman From Drowning

    Two young cousins are being hailed as heroes after rescuing a fisherman from drowning at a popular vacation spot in New Zealand. According to Fairfax New Zealand News, Will White and Sergio Schuler, both 12, didn't hesitate to jump into rough water to?save Vincent Shao when he was caught in a rip tide?on Saturday at a beach in Bowentown. "I thought I was?going to die," Shao, a 32-year-old Auckland resident, told the news source.

  • LOOK: Dramatic Rescue For Teens Stuck On Frozen Arizona Lake

    Two Arizona teens were finally rescued Wednesday after spending two terrifying hours clinging to a dead tree while an icy lake began to crack around them. According to Fox News, a third teen -- who had stayed on the bank of Fool Hollow Lake in eastern Ariz.?-- called for help while the other two clung for their lives to the tree. Become a founding member of HuffPost Plus today.

  • LOOK: World's Oldest Identical Twins Celebrate 103rd Birthday

    On Monday, the world's oldest living identical twins celebrated their 103 birthday! Charlotte Eisgrou and Ann Primack of South Florida and Daytona Beach, Fla. are still in the best of health, despite their?age. Neither uses a hearing aide or reading glasses, reported the Daily Mail.

  • This Amazing 10-Year-Old Made Her Late Father's Dream Come True

    Ten-year-old Gracie McNulty faced a tough Christmas this year -- it was the first one without her father. On Christmas Day, McNulty asked her mother to keep the family's cafe, the Grilled and Filtered in Yokshire, open. According to the Daily Mail, McNulty served full turkey dinners to 50 homeless people?on Tuesday with the help of her mother and three siblings.

  • WATCH: Teen Takes Bullets For His Friend

    Six months ago, Rony Monzon became a hero when he jumped into the line of fire, taking three bullets and saving his friend's life. Become a founding member of HuffPost Plus today. On July 11, Monzon and his neighbor, 14-year-old Daneysi Valdovinos, were sitting outside their Southwest Chicago homes when an unidentified gang member opened fire on the teens.

  • WATCH: Special Agent Tracks Down Family To Return Priceless Treasure

    A North Carolina family was reunited with some priceless family photos last month because of a good Samaritan who went out of his way to return a lost memory card. According to TODAY, Florida resident?David Nieland was vacationing at the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina in November when he spotted something small and sparkling on the ground during a hike. When he picked it up, it turned out to be a memory card for a digital camera.

  • LOOK: Pay-It-Forward Chain Lasts For 3 Hours

    Winnipeg's residents are at it again. According to Yahoo News,?customers at a Tim Hortons coffee shop in Winnipeg?started a chain of goodwill that ended up extending to 228 lucky residents on Friday. Troy Thompson, who manages the restaurant, told the news source that the energy among the staff and customers was infectious.

  • WATCH: Little Girl's Hilarious Reaction While Visiting The Doctor

    According to the YouTube description of the video, the girl was visiting the dermatologist to have the calluses around a wart 'scraped.' She was terrified it would hurt. "As it was, it was a little uncomfortable, but also alternated to being quite tickelish too! As this hilarious video shows, she alternates from crying hysterically and laughing hysterically,"?writes moonstarz01 on YouTube.

  • LOOK: Awesome Middle School Students Grant Veteran's Wish

    A World War II veteran's dream of returning to the land he fought in is finally being granted, thanks to the generosity of middle school students in Mississippi. According to the DeSoto Times-Tribune, Hulan Roberts, who was aboard a B-17 bomber during the Battle of the Bulge in 1944, wished to return to the Belgian countryside. "I'm as interested as anyone to go back and see it," Roberts said in a ceremony at DeSoto Central Middle School.

  • LOOK: Muslims And Christians Come Together For Christmas

    Catholics and Muslims were able to put their religious differences aside for the sake of Canada's poor this week. According to the London Free Press, members of the London, Ontario,?Muslim mosque helped the Society of St. Vincent du Paul, a Catholic organization,?gather enough food to feed more than 100 families during the Christmas season. “I feel extremely pleased and grateful, looking around this room,” Moe Lacerte, the volunteer president of the St. Vincent de Paul conference, told the London Free Press as he looked over the overwhelming donations collected by the mosque.

  • WATCH: 7-Year-Old With Cancer Takes On Pro-Wrestler

    A 7-year-old's dream came true on Tuesday when a social media campaign allowed him to meet his WWE hero. It all started with a YouTube video of cancer patient Connor Michalek making a plea to meet his all-time favorite WWE wrestler, Daniel Bryan. Michalek, of Shaler Township, Penn., was diagnosed with cancer of the brain and spine when he was just 3 years old.

  • LOOK: Incredibly Loyal Dog Guards Friend's Body

    According to the New York Daily News, a male dog in Zhangzhou, China, was photographed?standing guard over his female companion?after she was hit by a car and killed. The male dog?braved oncoming traffic?in order to stay by his friend's side. Once in a while, witnesses would see the dog nudge the female's body, as if trying to wake her.

  • WATCH: Skier Survives Being Buried Alive Under Avalanche

    Emily Anderson is lucky to be alive after an avalanche buried her for more than 15 minutes. According to WPTV, Anderson was skiing Crystal Mountain in Enumclaw, Wash., when more than?three feet of snow broke loose and triggered an avalanche that overtook her and two other skiers on Monday.

  • LOOK: This Is What Love Looks Like

    Reddit user red_fog,?posted this?image of his dog, Duder, and horse, Mac, expressing their special relationship with each other. Duder, a lab and pit bull mix, and Mac, an Arab horse, usually spend their days together. The now inseparable pair first met when Duder was only 8 weeks old.

  • A Christmas Miracle For A Dying Girl

    Two Phoenix police officers went above and beyond the call of duty Tuesday after a thief robbed a dying girl of her Christmas decorations. Linzy Smith, 5, was diagnosed with a?rare bone marrow disease?only two weeks before Thanksgiving, KSN News reports. The diagnosis meant that Linzy and her mother, Jessica Smith, would have to spend the holidays away from home as the girl undergoes treatment in Houston.

  • Struggling College Student Wins Big

    Asif Khan, of Villa Park, Ill.,?bought a winning $1 million instant lottery ticket?at the Hillside Shell gas station on November 19, reported The Chicago Tribune. Lottery officials presented him with a ceremonial check at the gas station Wednesday morning. According to NBC, Khan, a junior at East-West University in Chicago,?plans to continue his education?and wants to become a cardiologist.

  • LOOK: Cast Of Amazing Race Has Message For Bullied Boy

    Amazing Race 2012 winners "The Beekman Boys," Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Brent Ridge, have received more than 8,000 letters of congratulations from various fans after their triumphant finish. According to the?Beekman Boys' blog, one of the first notes they received was from a mother with a son named Colin.

  • WATCH: Surprising Guest Attends NFL Player's Funeral

    In an amazing act of forgiveness, the mother of former Dallas Cowboys linebacker Jerry Brown invited her son's teammate, Josh Brent, to his funeral Tuesday. Brent has been charged with intoxicated manslaughter in Brown's death. According to CBS, Brent was?released on $500,000 bail Sunday.