LOVE WARRIORS: I have a secret to tell you. It’s about Mother’s Day. You know the story the world has told you about Mother’s Day: that it’s a Hallmark holiday only about staying home and snuggling up and opening gifts and having pedicures and brunch with our little tribe? It’s a lie. Mother’s Day was never about brunch. Listen to me you guys, because this is the best, most awesome thing I know. Mother’s Day wasn’t created by Hallmark. Mother’s Day was created by ONE OF US — a grieved, activist,  revolutionary Love Warrior named Julia Ward Howe. Tired of…

Here is an update on the life-saving work you’ve already done. Please come back tomorrow, 5/3 at 10AM to be part of the biggest miracle yet! Friends, it’s time to update you on The Compassion Collective and our work to care for refugees in Europe. All the stories you are about to read — stories about the lives saved, the people fed, the shelter given—they can only be told because of you. You are the ones doing this. The gratitude that everyone connected with this work has for you is without measure. The situation for our refugees is worse now than it was…

A few months ago, Amma got sick. She was sick for a week — the kind of sick that means really high fevers and fear. I held her for days and kissed her hot forehead and all I could think about was how lucky we are. Because it was a hard time, but I knew she’d get better. So as I held my Amma — half my heart was with her and the other half was with you parents who spend your weekends and holidays in hospitals, who hold your babies while they cry and can’t promise them: you’ll feel better tomorrow,…