The Wag Of His Tail

By Joseph J. Mazzella on October 21, 2024 / 418 views

By Joseph J. Mazzella on October 21, 2024 / 418 views

Beep! Beep! Beep! My arm swung over automatically and hit the snooze button this morning. I lay back down hoping to give my brain a few more minutes to wake up but it was not to be. Suddenly I heard the Thump Thump Thump of a thick tail hitting my night stand while a wet tongue licked my hand. It was our new puppy, Hank. He’s part Dachshund, part Basset Hound and full of puppy energy. I sat up, petted...

Purposeful Paws

By Mark Wasicsko on October 18, 2024 / 628 views

By Mark Wasicsko on October 18, 2024 / 628 views

If you can start the day without caffeine or pep pills, If you can be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains, If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles, If you can eat the same food every day and be grateful for it, If you can understand when loved ones are too busy to give you time, If you can overlook when people take things out on you when, through no...

Found A Wallet On A Bus

By A Friend on October 17, 2024 / 824 views

By A Friend on October 17, 2024 / 824 views

My girlfriend found a wallet on the bus that belonged to a teenager with some cash and gift cards. After an arduous search I was finally able to contact her mom to be able to return it to her. This is the text she sent on her mom's phone thanking...

An Act Of Kindness By A Mom In Our Community

By A Friend on October 16, 2024 / 821 views

I wanted to share an act of kindness by a mom in our community. One of the girls my daughter goes to school with is in a single parent family and her mom cannot drive due to disability. With no other family living locally it looked like it would be very difficult for the girl to acquire the number of driving hours required to take her driving test. So her friend's mom...

Christmas Caroling

By A Friend on October 14, 2024 / 626 views

By A Friend on October 14, 2024 / 626 views

We started going Christmas caroling every December sophomore year. I’ll always remember this elderly woman. It was her first Christmas since her husband had passed. She invited us in, and gave us some hot apple cider. We chatted about her life, our lives, and the many vintage Christmas decorations she had around the house. We stayed for about 30 minutes, and she told us that we must...

Each Day Is A New Beginning

By Joseph J. Mazzella on October 12, 2024 / 1,456 views

By Joseph J. Mazzella on October 12, 2024 / 1,456 views

It is the morning of my 58th birthday as I write this. That actually means I have lived 58 full years here on Earth and am starting into day one of my 59th. That is a lot of miles under the hood. When I looked in my mirror this morning I could see the wear and tear on my body too. My hair was sparse and silver. My skin was thin. My face was full of age spots. And my wrinkles were chiseled deep into my skin....

A Little Red Button

By A Friend on October 09, 2024 / 1,844 views

By A Friend on October 09, 2024 / 1,844 views

My oldest brother is 10 years older than me. When I was in first grade, he took me shopping for new school clothes - which was huge because, as the youngest of six kids, I lived in hand-me-downs. He bought me a little navy blue, polka dot dress with a Peter Pan collar and red alphabet buttons. But, on picture day, I lost one of the buttons on the playground. I had a total meltdown because...

The Other Evening A Friend And I Found $400

By A Friend on October 08, 2024 / 1,495 views

The other evening a friend and I found $400 In $50 notes in the car park..just blowing in the wind . After going back to her car we were wondering what to do with it as no one had been about.. she suggested driving around to see if anyone had left the shops and were looking for it..she drove around and around ..finally a young man was walking back to his car near where the money was ..she pulled up and asked...

I Hugged Her So Tightly

By Leanne on October 08, 2024 / 1,346 views

This was a few years ago now but wanted to share an remind people that there are still beautiful people in this world. I was doing my grocery shopping and whilst paying at the till realized I didn’t have enough money as I also needed to purchase petrol for the trip home. While I was putting back the meat and other items I couldn’t afford, explaining this to the teller, a lovely kind lady...

A Car Guard's Hospital Visit

By Marian Gray-Wilson on October 07, 2024 / 1,287 views

By Marian Gray-Wilson on October 07, 2024 / 1,287 views

Here is a most amazing story about our incredible fellow South African awesome human beings. I have friends who live in the Edenvale area who have their 84 year old Grandpa, Gavin, visiting them for a while. Sam regularly takes him with to the shops to get groceries and supplies at Karaglen. She parks on the Woolies side and their is a car guard called Guy who always greets them enthusiastically. They...

Don't Keep Score

By Joseph J. Mazzella on October 02, 2024 / 2,101 views

By Joseph J. Mazzella on October 02, 2024 / 2,101 views

I had a friend and neighbor once who was a real “score keeper.” She had grown up learning: “Neither a borrower nor a lender be.” Every favor or act of kindness done to her then had to be paid for either in cash or in kind. Once when I mowed her lawn and forgot to tell her when I was done she followed me to my house to pay me. I could see that living this way, always having to keep...

Reliable Witnesses

By A Friend on September 30, 2024 / 1,005 views

On the afternoon of Friday 20 September, on the way to Camberwell station, I experienced a health issue. I was attempting to beat the imminent torrential rain front to my train home. What happened next is a bit sketchy, and so I rely on direct quotes from the ambulance notes: "Reliable witness x 3 state [patient] was walking through Camberwell train station carpark when he commenced...

Someone Paid For Me And My Sons Bill Tonight

By Robxenotech on September 27, 2024 / 2,217 views

By Robxenotech on September 27, 2024 / 2,217 views

This never happens to me. In a local restaurant, quiet place a little out of the way. My family is having a meal and I’ve got my 4 year old boy with Down’s syndrome. He can act terrified in new places so clung to me but did eat his food in the end but I always have to feed him. When we go to pay the waitress calls me over and says a gent opposite has paid for you and your son’s...

My Life Is Rapidly Changing From Black And White To Color

By A Friend on September 25, 2024 / 2,404 views

By A Friend on September 25, 2024 / 2,404 views

A few weeks ago my girlfriend and I broke up. I initiated it, but it was brutal. We both loved each other and thought we were on a path to building a family. I won’t go into the specifics of why the breakup, but I spent a week feeling sorry for myself, vaping, eating nothing but Domino’s, and binging Netflix. After a week, I decided I needed to stop and cope in a healthier way. I went to...

One With God's Creation

By Joseph J. Mazzella on September 24, 2024 / 2,181 views

By Joseph J. Mazzella on September 24, 2024 / 2,181 views

The heating element on my clothes dryer conked out this week. I soon found out that the big box store no longer carried the part so I had to order one online. It took several days before it came in and I could get it installed, so I found myself carrying my wet clothes over to my daughter’s house to dry. And as I did so each day I thought of my Mom’s old dyer. It was solar powered. It was called a...

Surprise Bouquet Brings Comfort To Grieving Mom

By Sunny Skyz on September 23, 2024 / 1,930 views

By Sunny Skyz on September 23, 2024 / 1,930 views

Ali Kidd’s trip to the park with her two-year-old daughter, Lamayah, turned into an unexpected moment of joy when they discovered a bouquet of flowers left behind to brighten someone’s day. The bouquet, placed by two local businesses, had a note attached that read: "We hope these flowers brighten up your day." Ali couldn’t have needed the surprise...

A Mickey Mouse Watch

By Jenni on September 20, 2024 / 2,220 views

We recently traveled our first overseas trip. Fabulous time. On a flight in the USA from Connecticut to Chicago, my husband had a turn mid flight. He was ok and we continued on our next flight. Our daughter who is 11 witnessed it all and was very scared. Luckily there were two doctors on board, one an ER doc. They were amazing. The lady in front of my husband was a beautiful lady who comforted our...