The Be Kind Blog

Do you think of love in terms of passion and hearts and romance? Or do you see love as a test of endurance? Does your love still sparkle, or have the lights gone out? When Saul and I started dating, every moment was magical. He would look into my eyes and my stomach would flip.

My dad is a deep thinker. He spent most of his life as a therapist, so he’s a pretty good listener, too. He can be engaged in a conversation and then spend several days, if not weeks, thinking about the deeper meaning behind someone’s words or actions. Had he not gone into the profession of

I say that I’m grateful for my health and the health of my family. I say that I’m grateful for the food that makes its way to our table. But maybe I’m not. Health and nourishment have always come easy. If I really knew what it was like to go without either, I think my

The strange yet obvious thing about moving to a new town is that nobody knows you. When I moved to Fargo 10 years ago, I felt like I had moved to the “Twilight Zone.” Never before in my life had I lived somewhere where I knew no one. My husband left the house and went

I was walking down the street with my 4-year-old son this fall when we came upon a young woman with a heavy limp using a cane. As we approached her from behind, I could see his interest piqued and braced myself for whatever was about to come out of his mouth. I silently prayed that

Now that Christmas and New Year’s festivities are finished, most of us just want to move on to spring. Me too, but may I share my favorite memory from this past holiday season? It has to do with a certain misfit reindeer … For some reason, for the entire months of November and December, my

I want to teach my kids two things before I die: 1) the importance of being kind; and 2) the value of a dollar. I want to teach them lots of other lessons, too, like how to drive a car and do their own laundry, but let’s not rush it.The kindness thing is important to