He Fills My Days With Love And Encouragement

By Bonnie Lee Proulx on June 16, 2018 / 495 views

I awoke one morning this week, feeling sore and tired, after a week and a half of battling caterpillars that were trying to destroy our beautiful trees. Hours spent spraying the trees and then rinsing them afterwards, began to take it's toll on my spirits and my muscles. This particular morning, I had decided that the caterpillars could not be vanquished, until I noticed this chalkboard message...

A Time For Me

By Ann Cabig on June 15, 2018 / 468 views

Since I became a mother, I cannot remember the last time I had quality time for myself... Even my simple hobby of reading a book was already a thing of the past. All my time evolved in taking care of the family, my kids, my husband, doing the house chores and of course working to earn a living. Whenever I get to be invited by my colleagues to go out after work, I politely declined telling them the truth that I...

How A Lifestyle Can Affect A Relationship

By Jhefdaily on June 15, 2018 / 310 views

A great lifestyle is a big contributor to improve your health or to your relationship. It should be the top of the list because we cannot think the right way if we are not healthy, we cannot perform our job well and become less effective in our respective responsibilities if we do not practice good lifestyle or perhaps a good habit. We cannot spend quality time to our love ones if we are sick, though it is...

A Surprising Interaction At McDonald's

By A Friend on June 14, 2018 / 710 views

Last weekend I was at a generic McDonald's off of a highway mid-day. My family and I were in the middle of a 6 hour drive back home and everyone was already in a bad mood. I was particularly down because of some personal stuff that I have going on. As my dad was getting the food the bag ripped and most of our fries fell on the floor. He cleaned them up and we split the fries that were left. A...

Dinner

By Joseph J. Mazzella on June 14, 2018 / 456 views

When I was a boy growing up, after church on Sundays, we would always have a delicious Italian dinner. My Nana’s slow cooked sauce was the key. In it were cooked potatoes, chicken, steak, and meatballs. Mounds of spaghetti would also be boiled and dropped into the red sauce. We also had loaves of homemade Italian bread covered in butter. Every now and then there were also big chunks of Provolone cheese....

The Power Of One Prayer

By Kay Heitsch on June 11, 2018 / 956 views

It had been a long day at Cedar Point, an amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio. Ruth Ann and I were there with our church's youth group. We were exhausted as we made our way to the van after the fireworks. However, the day was not over for us. We still had to find our way to the Lakeside campgrounds several miles away. My sense of direction was not good that night; even though I had lived in...

Pizza Inn Employee Goes Above And Beyond

By Single Mom on June 10, 2018 / 850 views

Y'all... I'm a single mom. I have three boys, and I decided to go out for dinner tonight. We stop at Pizza Inn and happen to catch the tail end of the buffet. I got the youngest one his first so he's done first, then he goes to play. And were the only patrons in the establishment so I'm watching but still eating my meal. There was a waitress... Catalina was her name. She kept my son entertained...

Every Day May Not Be Good, But There's Something Good In Every Day

By Oakland Firefighters Local 55 on June 09, 2018 / 1,362 views

By Oakland Firefighters Local 55 on June 09, 2018 / 1,362 views

The Oakland Firefighters Local 55 posted this picture. They responded to a house fire over the weekend. Firefighter Kevan Brown went inside to make sure no one was trapped. It was all safe. But as he came out he saw a mother and her little girl come rushing up to the building. It turns out that they lived in the unit that burned. Firefighters...

A New Chair For Charlie

By LaserSailor760 on June 07, 2018 / 1,001 views

I am an officer for a government agency working at a disability/welfare office and I got to see the coolest thing today. A homeless man, Charlie, came in with a power wheelchair that didn't work. It's batteries would no longer charge. As I was pushing him around the office, first to get checked in, then to an outlet to get some charge in his batteries, then back to a window to be...

A Family Turned Their Grief Into Something Wonderful

By Angelo Collazo on June 06, 2018 / 1,378 views

By Angelo Collazo on June 06, 2018 / 1,378 views

Nine years ago, my wife and I lost our first daughter, Alle Shea Collazo, to the rare bone disease Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI). At birth, Alle had broken ribs, arm, legs, wrist and her skull had many fractures. Alle graced their lives for only five weeks. The day she passed away it was the first time we got to hold Alle without pillows and cushions between us. We promised to keep Alle Shea's fight alive...

Charity

By Sonia Kaur on June 06, 2018 / 661 views

Charity is an act of giving or you can say spirit of giving. Giving 10% of your income to non-profit organizations. Charity means to fulfill the need of the needy. Whatever need is money, love, things, care, your company, and time, smile, your waste materials etc. You can give whatever blessings you are granted from God. Charity is not something to give in hurry. Remember if your money is not used...

Mowing The Lawn

By Joseph J. Mazzella on June 05, 2018 / 1,203 views

It had been raining on and off for several days and the weather forecast called for even more rainy days ahead. The only break seemed to be for several hours this morning so I knew that I would have to cut the grass now. I had several large lawns to do so I quickly pulled out my old push mower and hoped that the wet grass wouldn’t choke it up too much. I got to work cutting 20 inch swaths over and over...

There Are Some Good People

By Zoe Starliite on June 03, 2018 / 1,557 views

So, in fifth grade, my backpack was stolen from my dad's car, which had my binder which had all my school stuff in it, and a few other valuables, like I used to and still like to write stories, and it had notebooks in it that I had stories in that I have been working on for quite a while. And when my dad had come and woken me up to tell me that his car was broken into and my backpack was stolen, I was...

Guillain Barre Synrome And Stubborn Heart!

By Sandesh Savane on June 01, 2018 / 1,077 views

I was 27 years old; me and my spouse were leaving behind our one of the biggest ever bad times in our life. So, we were slowly making out our way to 2015 from our bad year of 2014, where we lost our newly born baby girl who was unable to survive due to Convulsion and left us alone. In the beginning of 2015, we were having a good time. We started to go out to meet our relatives; we went to Nashik,...

One More Ride

By Joseph J. Mazzella on June 01, 2018 / 1,225 views

I was ten years old riding my bicycle at break-neck speed down a hill near my home. This was long before bike helmets were used and I am sure I was making my poor, old, gray-haired guardian angel work overtime again. Only a month before I had hit a rock in the road, flown over my handlebars and smashed open my skull. I had walked home bleeding, terrified my Mom, and gotten a trip to the hospital to have my...

The Art Of Listening

By Sonia Kaur on May 30, 2018 / 1,612 views

Listening is an art which one has to develop. Listening means to understand and learn from a person. It pays nothing if you start listening, you will get to know one thing from everybody. In this world everybody wants to speak and very few are a good listener. Those who listen are always flooded with friends. People want a good listener not a good speaker because everyone himself consider a good...

When A Random Stranger Does Something Nice

By Tim on May 29, 2018 / 1,821 views

This happened just a few minutes ago and I wanted to share. It's not a huge deal but put a smile on my face and made me feel very grateful. I headed to my local store, it doubles up as a petrol station. As I enter the forecourt I notice that all the pumps are cordoned off. I figure they have just ran out of fuel. I head into the store and notice that the refrigerated and frozen sections are...