My 4-Year-Old Almost Made Me Cry This Morning

By A Friend on October 08, 2019 / 2,989 views

I'm a 30 male with a partner of 8 years with two daughters (4 and 1, birthdays next March). We live on a EXTREMELY high cost/low income island. I work 2 jobs to help provide for my family. We have debt (as most do) and very stressed. Before I left to go to work this morning, just as I'm standing at the door I always say " Love you pickle, have a good day at school" and today she...

Landlord Wedding Gift

By A Friend on October 05, 2019 / 3,168 views

By A Friend on October 05, 2019 / 3,168 views

My landlord of 3 years is an absolute saint. He has several investment properties and I have known him for 3 years. We’ve been great tenants and he’s been a great landlord. This is likely the biggest wedding gift we’ll get!! I’m going to have to take him out for dinner and a...

The Person Behind The Wheel

By Joseph J. Mazzella on October 03, 2019 / 3,495 views

I woke up in a bad mood this morning. I'd had a fitful night's sleep and my bad back was sorer and tighter than ever. My shoulder was starting to feel just as sore too. I tried to stretch them out to no avail and stumbled into the bathroom. I looked in the mirror and saw the pain on my face. I certainly wasn't looking any younger either. My hair was now mostly gray and mostly gone on top. I was...

Every Day We Have A Chance To Begin Again

By Erin on October 02, 2019 / 4,661 views

The past cannot define you. Nothing can unless you let it. Every day we have a choice: we can stay in our comfort zone and choose to do the things that haven’t really worked out because it’s easier, or we can choose growth. We can choose to believe in ourselves more. We can choose to learn and restart with the new lessons we bring with us. We can choose to be better than we were...

You're Not Ugly. You Just Look Like You

By A Friend on October 01, 2019 / 3,755 views

I photograph a lot of people. Almost everyone believes they are ugly. Your grandmother. Your child. Your best friend. Most models. Most actors. Maybe even you. “Oh, don’t take my photo, I’ll break your camera!” laughs the 80-year-old grandfather. When he dies a few months later, his grandkids will treasure this reminder of his “ugly mug.” “Please...

A Simple Act Of Kindness

By Serena on September 23, 2019 / 6,799 views

By Serena on September 23, 2019 / 6,799 views

Today I was asked if I am any good with phones by an elderly man as he was trying to open a picture message that his granddaughter had sent. I took a look at his phone which was a really old Nokia. As he didn’t have a smart phone I told him that he wouldn’t be able to view it. He was gutted and went on to tell me that it was a photo of his granddaughter and her new...

I Told You So!

By Roz on September 23, 2019 / 3,167 views

Those 4 words never sounded so good til the June morning in my mom's hospital room. It began when my mother was admitted to the hospital for a really bad infection in her bladder. It was November 21 when they called us to her hospital room to tell us my mom had a mass tumor it was big in her stomach and it was malignant. They went over a couple of options but all I heard was MDAnderson &...

You Never Know Who Is Watching...

By Ell on September 23, 2019 / 8,211 views

I didn’t grow up in a very loving family. In fact, there are few, if any, happy memories I have of my childhood involving my family members. My happiest moments were spent with the few friends I was allowed to have. My family eventually alienated all the neighbors, so the time came when I didn’t even have neighborhood kids to play with. This was the time before internet. So, I learned to occupy my...

I Was An African American Racist

By Karlata on September 18, 2019 / 3,352 views

My sister and I stayed many sleepless nights at a local hospital as our mother was in critical condition.. ICU and all that goes with it. There was a man..a white man.. close to our age who sat alone for as many days as we had. The worry on his face..the tense conversations he had with the dr's.... We're African American women. He was much more polite to us. I'm so ashamed to admit it.....

Dreams

By Joseph J. Mazzella on September 16, 2019 / 3,352 views

Webster's Dictionary defines a dream as a "Series of thoughts or visions during sleep." Biologists say dreams are our brains way of organizing, storing, and remembering what we have seen the day before. Psychologists say dreams sometimes help us work out our issues and emotional problems. Most people, however, think dreams are unimportant and do their best to ignore and forget...

Dropping Off A Friend From School

By A Friend on September 11, 2019 / 3,813 views

By A Friend on September 11, 2019 / 3,813 views

I have a friend that needs a ride home from school and I help her out by dropping her off on my way home, I never ask for anything in return. But today when I dropped her off her mother gave me some gas money and a home cooked dish for my family and that made me super happy so I decided to share...

Today Was A Really, Really Great Day

By A Friend on September 11, 2019 / 3,353 views

I was sitting at the dinner table with my mother and step father discussing two different family drama situations when my mom gasps and her mouth is hanging wide open. She isn't speaking so I go and look on her phone and it's a friend request on Facebook from my big sister who we both haven't spoken to in four years when all of my sisters got pissed at my mom over lies about their childhood spread...

Listening Is Caring

By AC on September 10, 2019 / 4,675 views

By AC on September 10, 2019 / 4,675 views

I sat down on the plane yesterday to fly back home from a quick business trip to the east coast. There was an older lady sitting in the seat next to mine. She told me her name is Lorraine. She was taken on to the plane with a wheel chair during preboarding. I sat down, said hi and so did Lorraine. Super nice lady. You could see it in her eyes. A nice grin from a small, frail, kind...

Machines Or Us

By Joseph J. Mazzella on September 09, 2019 / 3,010 views

A local grocery store here is remodeling and not a single one of the changes is good for those of us who shop there. The grocery aisles have been rearranged with some going in one direction and others going in another. The aisles have been pushed closer together too making it harder to get through them. All of the items have been moved from their usual spots as well. It seems like all of these changes have...

HOPE

By Innie Pearl on September 09, 2019 / 3,106 views

My father once told me "the only thing that keeps a man going inspite of his fustrations and agony is hope". Growing up I learned how to be stronger and be a better version of myself... laying always in my solitude. That was like my abode cause I was always comfortable and found my peace there....there was nobody to understand how I felt or every bit of pain I felt within each passing day,...

My Clock Says

By Sonia Kaur on September 09, 2019 / 2,502 views

My clock says your life is moving. Time is gliding and never come back. This time will never return. Do something worth. Make the most of it. This is the good or bad habit of time that it passes away and never stops for anyone Whether it is good or bad. Whatever work you have do it today you never know, tomorrow will come or not. My clock says I am in your favour as long as you are alive. You will...

Roll With It

By Josh on September 05, 2019 / 4,608 views

By Josh on September 05, 2019 / 4,608 views

Tonight, on my flight from Indianapolis to Baltimore I sat next to an unaccompanied minor who was traveling to Baltimore to see her Mother. With Southwest Airlines open seating anyone could have sat next to her, in fact many people avoided her and her boundless energy during boarding. But finally, the couple you see in the photo occupied the two seats to her right. Within minutes the young girl...