The biggest threat to our way of life are not our governments or the terrorists they claim to be chasing across the globe. It is
Kindness Changes Everything
The biggest threat to our way of life are not our governments or the terrorists they claim to be chasing across the globe. It is
On Tuesday January 6th I had to euthanize my kitty Sara who I have had for fourteen beautiful years. (She had multiple tumors). When I
There are many misconceptions about what it’s like to be a sexual assault survivor. One particularly harmful assumption is that survivors are affected by their experience
I’ve had a rough three years since my husband was diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia. I was at the grocery store to buy myself a
We never know, for sure, what is really going on in someone’s life unless they have told us or we have seen for ourselves… At
I crouched against the warm brick of my new school, hidden by a row of bushes from the prying eyes of passing teachers. I waited
Back in the 90s, my brother, Harry, went up north to Inuvik to look for a job. Inuvik is in Nunavut…but back then, it was
This is true story from the assisted living facility where I work. The names have been changed to protect the privacy of the residents. Of
“It takes a village to raise a child” This phrase is so well known it’s almost hackneyed, and gets trotted out when parents receive support
A long, long busy day, taking pictures at a ‘homes for people’ rally out in the cold. My train was delayed and I had to
It has truly been my good luck to have lived in Scotland for the last 30 years. You see I am an ex-pat from Illinois
Graham Moore won Best Adapted Screenplay for “The Imitation Game” at Sunday’s Oscars. The screenplay was about Alan Turing, the genius codebreaker who did so
I BLINKED . . . I blinked. . . When I opened my eyes I was responsible for four precious human beings. As they sit,
For many of us daily life seems to pass us by as one ongoing scene of drama and reactiveness in which the lines that define
What I never learned from my mother was that just because someone desires you does not mean they value you. Desire is the kind of
I can see him now: shoulders slightly hunched, white hair uncovered, walking slowly up the wooded lane. He doesn’t pause as often as he once
His doctors have asked him to stop. He works too hard, he barely sleeps and what he’s currently doing is putting his own health at
As a fan of this column, I note that many acts of kindness reported therein are of the “random” variety. You know, the kindness shown
This is the story of how Jason Rodas lost his mother a few years ago. Jason had to make the toughest decision of his life,
“Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for
Would you like to join Team Kindness Blog? Currently, we are a small team dedicated to sharing media based on kindness, love, tolerance, self-development and
My grandmother kept two freezers full of food at all times; she was a product of the Great Depression, born in 1916. Every time she
A mother had the chance to hear her dead son’s heart beat inside the chest of the woman he saved with a transplant 18 years
I work at a school as a college counselor but since we have grades k -12 I have lunch duty with 2nd graders. Today one
Years ago I was a store manager and needed a cashier. I’d received a call from some woman about a cashier job, so I told