40 Easy Ways to Be Kind by Mike O’Connor Smiles are irresistible. Don’t hesitate to smile warmly at friends, family, colleagues and even…strangers. Write hand-written

Kindness Changes Everything
40 Easy Ways to Be Kind by Mike O’Connor Smiles are irresistible. Don’t hesitate to smile warmly at friends, family, colleagues and even…strangers. Write hand-written
Touch could properly be regarded as a form of nutrition. We mistakenly think that touch occurs on the periphery of our self, a skin thing.
Sometimes, it’s hard to give. It feels like we’re losing something by giving it away. And in actuality, it can appear like that at times.
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This blog was supposed to be a habitat for my thoughts as a Samaritan. A berth for me to sometimes share the message of the Samaritans,
The last 12-months have been tough. Really tough. It’s been the hardest year of my life. In sharing my truth here, I feel that
Photo courtesy of Pexels. Stress is a universal human experience. While it manifests differently for each individual, one thing remains the same: everyone feels stress
Have you ever reacted to something in anger? We all have. Typically, these are the reactions we regret most. But we can’t always help ourselves.
Soon after I woke up this morning I had a strange experience. I had dreamed of a homeless man I had breakfast with in San
When my husband died unexpectedly, a coworker took me under her wing. Every week for an entire year, she would send me a card saying
In 1958, I was a first-year high school teacher in Beatty, Nevada. On Dec. 22, I headed home to Idaho in my 1951 Hudson to
Thirty years ago, my world almost fell apart. I had surgery, was fired, and was informed by the IRS that my employer had not paid
Brenda Jones, a 69-year-old great-grandmother, had spent a long year on the donor list waiting to receive a liver. Then, on July 18, a hospital
I was just out of college, only three days into a graduate year in England, and I was dragging a heavy backpack and suitcase through
“I just saw a terrible thing,” my husband said, as he pulled up to the curb and I climbed into the passenger seat of the
You probably have this impression stuck in your head: Nice people are weak. They get taken advantage of, get blamed at, and are often pushed
My parents, at the height of the Depression, were forced to go on home relief, which is known as welfare today. It was 1935, when
I’m currently sat on a cancer ward at the hospital, waiting for my mum to be discharged after she had surgery to remove a tumor,
A touching note from a single mom posted on the Facebook page of San Francisco television anchor Frank Somerville has been liked 22,000 times and
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” -Anne Frank- I expected a tough goodbye when
Tuesday morning. It’s early. I’m walking down the tunnel at Grand Central Station. The air is heavy, the mammoth air conditioners have not yet fired
I had been sitting at the bar in the Chicago airport talking congenially over drinks for 20 minutes or so with a young woman from
My Grammie lived with us for a few years before she was transferred to a nursing home. The adjustment had been hard for her, especially
A week before my grandfather passed away, I snuck his favorite beer into the nursing home for him. I’m sharing a picture of an amazing
My husband and I were on the way to my brother’s house for dinner when we decided that eating there and being there with my