Broken Down In Vietnam

By Sincer77 on July 23, 2019 / 3,150 views

By Sincer77 on July 23, 2019 / 3,150 views

My brother and I were travelling Vietnam by motorbike. My brothers bike broke down and this man pushed it 5km (with his scooter), told the mechanic we needed help and then bought us beer while the mechanic fixed it. We chatted through Google translate the entire time. Mr Tran you are a Bro! Some more info: We were in the middle of nowhere and my brothers motorbike began having issues (quitting...

35 Years

By Joseph J. Mazzella on July 23, 2019 / 3,443 views

Isn't it incredible how the longer we live on this Earth the more the passage of time between the world outside us and the world within us seems out of sync? I attended my 35th high school reunion recently. It was held at the 4-H camp that I grew up next to as a child. When I got there the very first thing I noticed was the little Oak trees that I used to climb up as a boy now seemed as tall as Redwoods....

Miss Kitty

By Kay Heitsch on July 20, 2019 / 3,063 views

"Kindness like a boomerang always returns" ~ Animal Quotes ~ Many years ago there were no leash laws. People's pets were allowed to roam around freely. It was hard to tell sometimes if an animal was someone's pet or a stray. While we lived in Kentucky there was a cat I named Miss Kitty who came to visit every so often. When she arrived she would meow at the front door....

I Found My Husband's Secret Stash

By A Friend on July 19, 2019 / 3,452 views

We keep no secrets from each other. I went looking for one of our old credit cards. He has a few little hidey holes for important stuff, he's like WALL-E, so I went to his bedside table, bottom drawer, where he occasionally keeps old financial stuff. And there it was, just staring at me. I had no idea. Every card I've ever given him, every cutesy love letter, every sappy post-it....

I Did It

By A Friend on July 19, 2019 / 4,514 views

7 years ago, when I was 24, my wife was killed in a horrible car accident, leaving me (in complete shock and grief) as a single father to our 2 kids (at the time they were 1 and 3 years old). I didn't have any post high school education and was working as a construction worker. Before my wife passed away, we both worked full time and were able to rent a small but nice house. But as a...

A Special Beauty

By Joseph J. Mazzella on July 17, 2019 / 3,713 views

I was 17 years old. Along with a dozen other boys I had made a long trip to Iowa in order to see a college that I was thinking of attending. While the trip had been fun for the most part, now that I was there I was feeling depressed, alone, and isolated. I was missing my family and was realizing that I wouldn't be seeing them very much if I went to school here. I was also missing the Appalachian mountains...

Dog Rescue On Interstate Freeway In Vancouver, WA

By Chere on July 16, 2019 / 2,725 views

On July 5th my little dog Milo escaped the fenced yard of a friend in Vancouver and ran off. We suspect he heard day after the 4th fireworks. He ran for miles all the way to the I-5 northbound freeway ramp and was running in and out of traffic on the freeway. A young couple spent several hours chasing him down by car and on foot, rescued him and called me after noting my phone number on his collar....

Just Be Yourself

By Kay Heitsch on July 15, 2019 / 4,261 views

My Aunt Carmeleta was the wife of my mother's youngest brother Fred. Even though my Uncle Fred died many years ago and Aunt Carmeleta is now married to Ken I still consider her my aunt. Everyone should have a wonderful aunt like Aunt Carmeleta. I lived with her and my Uncle Fred for a year when I was a teenager. Like a lot of teenagers, I had issues with people who talked negatively about me. If...

The Business Man

By A Friend on July 12, 2019 / 4,182 views

My wife was homeless as a teenager. On Friday afternoons, a "business man" would walk up to her and ask her if she was hungry. She would say yes, and he would take her into the restaurant on the corner. She never felt any danger with him (and she has had to cut somebody badly before). He was just some dude offering her a meal. He would let her get anything in the menu. He would...

The Best Things In Life Really Are Free

By Tahiti on July 10, 2019 / 3,760 views

I saw the most beautiful thing ever one morning. It was early with a slight frost on the ground, and I was walking on dewy grass down to the horse paddocks - my mind on the days chores. Suddenly a blazing laser flash erupted straight from the ground about 15 feet in front of me, and shot up into the sky. It was so brilliant, clear and clean, it literally topped me in my tracks. I thought the only...

Just Breathe And Have Faith

By Kay Heitsch on July 10, 2019 / 3,320 views

I had to put the following quote into practice 25 years ago when I was asked to read 1 Corinthians 13 at my precious friend Evy's wedding. "Sometimes the best thing you can do is not think, not wonder, not imagine, not obsess, just breathe and have faith that everything will work out for the best." You may wonder why on earth would reading 1 Corinthians 13 be so difficult?...

Have You Ever?

By A Friend on July 08, 2019 / 3,129 views

Have you ever been completely alone? Have you ever walked for hours on end with no goal in mind? Have you ever attempted to become better for yourself? If you have never done any of these things you have yet to experience a totally different style of life. In our world people are never alone because of these little things called the internet. You can have thousands of friends that you have never met...

Unselfish Heart

By Kay Heitsch on July 08, 2019 / 3,071 views

Today I posted a picture of our 8-year-old grandson, Eli, running in a race on Facebook. I tagged a friend, Andrew, to make sure he saw it. There was a reason why Andrew was tagged and I'd like to share the reason why. Our son Todd died suddenly in a car accident at the age of 16. Todd had been a cross country runner in high school with Andrew and they had become friends. The day of...

A Single Butterfly

By Joseph J. Mazzella on July 06, 2019 / 4,046 views

It was a sweltering Spring day. The temperatures felt more like July than May. A thunderstorm had passed over earlier but now the clouds were clearing and the sun had returned. Steam was coming off the wet sidewalk as I parked my car next to the meter and tossed a quarter into it. I headed into the local thrift store to buy my son a shirt. The air conditioning in there was a welcome relief from the heat...

To The Family Who Sat Behind Us...

By A Friend on July 03, 2019 / 3,248 views

Thank you. I’m a young, black, gay guy in Alabama who walked into a Waffle House with a much older white guy. You could tell from how much we were laughing and smiling at each other that we were into each other. So what did you do? You left us a note thanking us for being who we are and paid for our meal. You have no idea how much that small act of...

A Multiplier

By Joseph J. Mazzella on July 01, 2019 / 3,377 views

I don't remember exactly what grade I was in when it happened. All I remember is that suddenly Math was no longer fun. Since the first grade I had always loved Math. I was a wiz at adding and subtracting. I got 100 percent on almost every paper I did. All at once, though, we were doing something called multiplication and I was no good at it. I struggled on my first few worksheets until the teacher gave us...

Your Future Is A Clean Slate

By A Friend on June 28, 2019 / 3,368 views

Regardless of where you are in life, who you are, what you've done, and how you feel about yourself, it's never too late to have your Day 1 and start fresh.. As the title says, your future is a clean slate. Even if you think you've lived a 1/10 life so far, you can put 10/10 effort going forward and see a huge difference from where you are right now. It'll take time, as all things do, but you...