Santa Brings Gift of Kindness
I look forward to getting out the Christmas decorations each year and lovingly placing them throughout the house. I usually pull out the boxes and turn on the Christmas music the day after Halloween, but this year I held off until the middle of November. My husband thanked me for my great self-restraint.As much as
Kindness Reminds of Us of Meaning of Christmas
My friend Liz has been haunted for a year by the way she reacted to her husband’s random act of kindness last Christmas Eve. I’ll let her tell you about it: “I love the holidays. I look forward to them every year. But inevitably, I am always amazed at the amount of stress I feel
Kindness Eases Loneliness for Those No Longer With Us
A woman I haven’t seen for 15 years just emailed me out of the blue. Kris and I met at the wedding of a mutual friend, and although we barely knew each other then, and certainly not at all now, Kris had something on her heart that she just knew I’d understand. Kris is lonesome.
Job Seeker Finds Big Kindness on Facebook
Sometimes social media is nasty. I mean really, truly, ruin-a-person’s-day nasty. It gives people the opportunity to say whatever they want with little, if any, filter. Some people need excitement in their lives, so they try to “stir the pot” by being downright rude. Then they wait and watch to see how the world will
Season of Thanksgiving Unlocks Kindness
The other night I put my kids to bed an hour and a half before their regular bedtime so I could sit on the couch, eat Ben & Jerry’s and watch a Hallmark Christmas movie alone in silence. I’m not sure what kind of message that is sending to my family, but I’m sure it’s
Handyman’s Act of Kindness Changes His Life
A man came to my house the other day to repair all of those little things in a home that are too difficult to fix myself, yet not so difficult that they involve cutting my losses and just moving. He actually came the first time to convince the mice who had moved into my basement
Friendship and Kindness Can Cure Anything
It’s been six months since the moving truck pulled out of my driveway in north Fargo and made the 16-hour trek to Athens, Ohio. Six months. That seems like such a long time. By all outward appearances, we are settled into our new life: my husband’s face is on posters all over town announcing the
