Being a connector leads to big kindness
I went to middle and high school with a girl who always seemed to bound with energy. She was nice to everyone, which meant she was friends with everyone. Our paths have rarely crossed in the nearly 30 years since graduation. The last I heard, she was a police detective working in Milwaukee, Wis. I
Some things don’t need to be fixed
I got back from LA late Saturday night. The whole family was wide awake and practicing their best (loudest and highest) opera voices. The next morning I went out to collect a week’s worth of mail. No one thought to bring it in, or maybe they knew I would get a kick out of seeing
Sometimes kindness shows up with a pickup truck
I saw a really cute free-standing shelf and chair the other day that I knew would fit perfectly in my podcast studio. Unfortunately, they were not the perfect fit for my car. I reclined seats and pushed aside bags, but could not get the pieces to even wedge through the door. That’s when I remembered
M&M and Mountain Dew Birthday Cake
Things were bananas in our home this weekend. It was Saul’s 48th birthday. The guy wants nothing — except to be able to have a real basketball season and I can’t give him that. So, the kids and I put our brains together to figure out how we could celebrate this strong kind man in
COVID Clowns bring kindness to seniors
She’s known as the “Witch of Warroad.” Doesn’t sound like a compliment, does it? It wouldn’t be, unless you’re Loralee Marvin, of Warroad, Minn., who looks forward to Halloween year-round. She says it’s the one time of year a person can dress up and act like a total goofball and no one seems to think
Celebrity Sightings
The awesome thing about living in a small town is that we get to see celebrities on a regular basis. We’ll be at the grocery store, standing in the cereal aisle when all of a sudden, BOOM!, Celebrity Sighting! It’s just the coolest. My kids will back away shyly, barely able to make eye contact,
A water dish helps woman run into kindness
I have an amazing kindness team that includes three women who are way kinder than I am. I’m not being humble. It’s true. They also have a way of noticing the kindness around them, which continues to inspire me to see it in my own life. Sarah Tachon, who is my marketing guru, shared this
