Ayaah! Power and kindness – by John Tuite
My daughter, now six, is at her karate class. She moves up and down the hall with the others, blocking, kicking, punching. There’s fifty children
Kindness Changes Everything
My daughter, now six, is at her karate class. She moves up and down the hall with the others, blocking, kicking, punching. There’s fifty children
A few years ago while living in Western Maryland, otherwise known as ‘The Land of Never-Ending Snow’, my boyfriend and I were suffering from cabin
Everything I learned from knitting… Cast on. Knit. Pick up a dropped stitch. Cast off. Repeat. These were the four steps of knitting my kind
“I recently stopped bringing my guitar to my Mom’s home because she no longer recognizes me and doesn’t respond to it anymore. I wish I
My husband (then boyfriend) and I moved to New York City in December 2009. We came from Sydney, Australia where in the southern hemisphere it
What would a new year be without a post about exercising?! Before your eyes begin to glaze over and your mind goes numb at the
Thanks to temperatures in the low 60s and a thunderstorm, today felt more like a spring day than the third day of January. The weather
My parents own a farm, so they don’t have time to go on very many dates. I made them dinner at home, complete with music,
There are as many definitions and descriptions of friendship as there are friends in the world. There are forever friends, fast friends, fair weather friends,
Fifty years after her liberation, Eva Mozes Kor stood at the ruins of the gas chambers in Auschwitz. While overlooking these machines of death, she
Why you need to be there for them. I decided to write this article because as I see my own parents age, I increasingly feel
Since I posted the challenge over two weeks ago, and as a warm-up to the main event, I’ve paid much deeper attention to the way
As the world is awash in feelings of hope and optimism, and new year’s resolutions and intentions are fresh in the minds of many, I
As 2014 rapidly comes to a close, I find myself straddling the line between the past and the future, as I reflect on the ups,
Judging a homeless person’s story in San Francisco “Hey, do you want an orange?” I ask. She’s sitting on a street corner with a backpack.
As I write this post, I realize that the twenty-seventh day of December is underway, but I am not one to stand on formality, plus
This Christmas Day may go down as one of my favorite ones ever. It has nothing to do with the gifts I gave or the
I never thought that a trip to the emergency room to begin my day and spending Christmas Eve alone to end my day would help
One North Carolina high school student showed off his sneaker enthusiasm and his Christmas spirit, all in one kind gesture. Yaovi Mawuli, (standing on the
When you’re on the receiving end of kindness — it’s milk — a honeyed, palliative sap with all associations of mothering & the cosseted dark womb. But being kind
This twenty-third day of December has left me physically and emotionally ill, making it difficult to focus on the goodness and light of this month
Police Officer Steve Norton was on patrol in London when he responded to a 999 call, reporting that a baby had stopped breathing. When he
In the bakery the man in front of me is very very old and by the way he acts and talks, pretty much out of
‘Jeniece Higgins wrote: “When we were in CA, I was taking a pic of the kids by a Christmas tree and a homeless man came
“Saturday morning, my son walked into my room and said he wanted to use his money to help the homeless. I asked him what he