Ride home opens door to life-changing kindness
When I think about the very first acts of kindness I can recall, I think about my mom. I remember her teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) in our small town. How scary it must have been for her students to move to a new country and not know how to communicate. My mom
Kindness Podcast Episode 2: Brian Williams
I have a secret. I do not like talking to kids. Don’t get me wrong, I love talking with kids, I just don’t like talking to them. Like from a stage. When they’re all sitting on the gym floor. Staring at me. Wiggling. Expecting me to pull a rabbit out of my hat or introduce
Week 42 Memory Verse: How to Stop Stifling Your Power
I was sitting in my mini-van when I had this huge idea over-take my heart. Go give her money. “Her” was the young mom in the shiny gold bikini I had just met at our community pool. The “money” I was being told to give away was mine, and although I didn’t know exactly what
Kindness Happens When We Take Time for Others
It’s the question that guides most of my parenting decisions: Am I teaching my kids to be kind? I don’t want them to be doormats or people who bend to the will of others even when it’s dangerous or unhealthy. But I do hope they find a good balance in life and lead with kindness
Kindness Podcast Episode 1: Leon Logothetis
Have you felt miserable in your life? Ever wanted to make a u-turn on whatever road you were on and start again? That’s what Leon did. Leon Logothetis is my guest in this very first episode of The Kindness Podcast. He has an amazing Netflix series and he’s a rockstar in the world of kindness.
Week 41 Memory Verse: When our world is shaken
There are situations in life that knock our socks off — and not in a good way. We didn’t see the results of that biopsy coming… We didn’t understand how far gone our children were until they were too far gone to reach… We never imagined that a day that started out so normal could
Kindness Can Be Found in Life’s Details
I got to spend the last week traveling around the state of Wisconsin talking about my favorite thing: kindness. Unfortunately, going from small town to small town meant I had to do a lot of my least favorite thing: driving. I was feeling too frugal to spend the extra $5 on cruise control for my
