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?
Live Loved
You know those days when you wake up feeling just okay? Not great. Not terrible. Just okay. When someone asks you how you’re doing, your face cracks into a pleasant smile before responding, “Fine.” I have a secret. God doesn’t want you to go through the day feeling just okay. He wants to wow you
Kindness lights up the space around us
Have you ever seen kindness ripple through a room? It happened just the other day in Sioux Falls, S.D. The Edith Sanford Breast Center put on an amazing conference for survivors and I got to talk about using kindness during a cancer journey. When I finished speaking, the emcee took the mic and told the
Are you an Andrea?
I was speaking to a group of cancer survivors in South Dakota Friday — telling my story and talking to the group about the “black dots” in our lives. For those of us in that room, breast cancer either was or is the predominant black dot. But there are always things that loom heavy in
Store clerk steps into woman’s pain to show kindness
There are things in life that are too heavy for words. We don’t know what to say, so we say nothing at all. I know I’ve been guilty of turning away from someone in their time of need because I couldn’t imagine anything I could say or do to lift their burden. Have you ever
I ran 100 miles and so can you
About a year ago I told you I was starting a running program. My daughter wanted to run a half marathon and she wanted me to do it with her. If you are a parent, you know that when your teenage daughter asks you to do anything with her, you say yes. I said yes,
