Kailyn Toussaint

Based in beautiful New England, Kailyn has been a part of the DONUT team since January 2021. When she's not writing positive stories or keeping readers up to date with the latest Sports, Media & Entertainment news, she works as a professional vocalist, touring with multiple groups and singing around the world. Kailyn spearheads our Positive DONUT newsletter, sharing awww-inspiring stories from around the world every Tuesday.

Kailyn Toussaint

Latest Articles by Kailyn Toussaint

Positive
  |  September 30, 2025

🧸 The ultimate stuffie sleepover

The Pinecrest Branch Library hosted a sleepover adventure for a group of beloved stuffed animals from kids around the Miami-Dade area.

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Positive
  |  September 30, 2025

🐦 Rehabilitation all around

At first glance, a state prison isn’t where you’d expect to find orphaned squirrels or injured blue jays.

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Positive
  |  September 23, 2025

🦆The duck hut

Ducks in Taiwan are living it up in floating pinecone-shaped huts designed by artist Cheng Tsung Feng.

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Positive
  |  September 23, 2025

Special delivery: 72 years late

An Illinois teen’s postcard from the U.N. just reached him—seven decades and one cross-country move since he sent it.

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Positive
  |  September 16, 2025

🍦 Is that one scoop, or two?

A bear raided a California ice cream shop—strawberry didn’t survive.

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Positive
  |  September 16, 2025

🫧 The bubble judge

Forget rice or rose petals— one Texas judge is making courthouse weddings pop.

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Positive
  |  September 9, 2025

From stray to stay

Wellington, a stray pig who roamed Maryland’s streets for months, just found his forever home in Pennsylvania — and he’s living like a dog.

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Positive
  |  September 9, 2025

You’ve got (dad) mail

A dad’s daily notes to his daughter inspired the Dad Letter Project, sending free handwritten letters of kindness worldwide.

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Positive
  |  September 2, 2025

Love at a snail's pace

Ned, a rare New Zealand snail, has a problem most of us can relate to—he just wants to find someone to love.

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Positive
  |  September 2, 2025

A living room, a legacy, and a lot of jazz

On the 21st of every month, neighbors on Capitol Hill know exactly where to find the beat: David Weiner’s living room.

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Positive
  |  August 26, 2025

Photographer Gurcharan Roopra spent hours in near-total darkness, waiting in silence by a watering hole in Kenya to capture this shot.

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Positive
  |  August 26, 2025

🍅 From garden to lifeline

Meet Floridian Bill Brown, a 96-year-old who grew a garden into a food bank feeding thousands.

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Positive
  |  August 19, 2025

🗑️ One person’s trash…

Trash turned into art by San Francisco artists.

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Positive
  |  August 19, 2025

✈️ From “study abroad” to “I do”

American student Maddy Kacmarcik never expected a chance roadside meeting in Australia to lead to four years of marriage with Travis.

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Business & Markets
  |  August 12, 2025

McDonald’s launches adult Happy Meal

🍟 Somebody call Cher: McDonald’s has finally found a way to turn back time. The fast-food chain is introducing an adult Happy Meal, which becomes available nationwide starting today.

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Positive
  |  August 12, 2025

🎨 Bad to the Art: Meet the King of Terrible Portraits

If you could get a terrible portrait of yourself, would you? 

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Positive
  |  August 12, 2025

An 80-year-old ultra inspiration

Meet Bob Becker, an 80 year old with an ultramarathon addiction. 

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Business & Markets
  |  August 5, 2025

How AI is upending the jobs market

🤖 The Terminator warned us he’d be back—and apparently, the time is nigh. Businesses’ rising adoption of AI accounted for 10,000+ job cuts in July alone, according to a report released last week by Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

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