Showing up with kindness helps soften the blow
Sometimes it’s not the first blow that knocks us down, it’s the second or the third. We can hold it together for the initial bad news, but all too quickly comes a totally unrelated problem that causes us to come unglued. I think they call that the straw that broke the camel’s back. Jolene Rohde
Help for the spinning head
Sometimes my head spins. How about yours? It’s not yet 9am and already I’ve worried whether my child has strep, how many mice might be living in my house, if I’m doing enough to support my friends, and how long my parents will live. My head seems to be extra spinny these days. (And yes,
Kindness rewrites people’s stories
We never really know what someone’s going through, do we? The clerk at the grocery store who stands on her feet all day and then goes home to take care of an ailing parent. The teacher who pours lessons of kindness and sharing into beautiful little hearts and then realizes she’s been sharing her husband
What to do when they drive you nuts
If you spend any time giving thanks with other people this week, you’re going to run into a lot of things that make you feel less than thankful. For instance, you create this fabulous dinner and then all the small children in the room ask if they can have chicken nuggets. Or maybe one member
The perfect love story is always filled with kindness
I’m a sucker for a Hallmark movie. Love is in the air when the owner of a small-town bakery falls for the big-city developer who intends to shut her down, but then has a change of heart and sweeps in to save the building from demolition. Somebody hand me a bucket of popcorn and a
Scared of the Season? Try this.
Every morning I patter out to the living room to turn on the tree. It’s on a timer along with the garland and lights wrapping the staircase railing. In the evening, they light up on their own, but in the morning, when it’s still dark and I’m still sleepy and not quite sure if the
Kids aim for 5000 acts of kindness in 15 days
What if I told you there is a group of people who are going to accomplish 5,000 acts of kindness in just 15 days? Think it can be done? What if I told you most of those people still live in their parents’ houses? And don’t have jobs? And wear “PAW Patrol” pajamas each night?
