I'm Getting Adopted By My Step-Dad

By Anon on December 30, 2016 / 2,336 views

I'm super excited! I know it's weird because I'm 21 years old but this means the world to me. It's not so much that this means he can officially care for me as it is that it's taking away the rights from my piece of shit father. I know I'm an adult already and I've always considered my stepdad to be my dad but this is different. This is amazing. This year I told my mom...

I'm So Proud Of My Fiancé And I Want To Share This Little Story With You

By JB on December 30, 2016 / 3,853 views

Today we were babysitting two of our nieces( 4 and 6 years old). They start screaming in the room where they were playing while my fiancé and I cooked lunch. We immediately ran into the room to see what happened and there was a small hairy scorpion that somehow got into the house. It's good they screamed because these things are nasty little demons. So my fiancé runs and...

Time Is A Choice

By Laura Vanderkam on December 29, 2016 / 7,830 views

By Laura Vanderkam on December 29, 2016 / 7,830 views

Instead of saying "I don't have time" try saying "it's not a priority" and see how that feels. Often that's a perfectly adequate explanation. I have time to iron my sheets, I just don't want to. But other things are harder. Try it: "I'm not going to edit your resume, sweetie, because it's not a priority." "I don't go to the...

Pain

By Sonia Kaur on December 28, 2016 / 2,073 views

What is pain? Pain is a reminder. It reminds us our mistakes. pain is an alarm of upcoming beautiful days. There are two types of pain in the world. First is physical pain like tooth ache, body ache, back pain, neck pain etc and second is heart pain. This pain has not any medicine yet. This pain only reduced by bearing it. Rumi says "The cure for pain is in the pain." When we forget God...

A Bigger Heart

By Joseph J. Mazzella on December 28, 2016 / 5,275 views

A beautiful, young girl is smiling at me from a picture frame on my desk as I write this. She is my sponsor child from the Philippines and even though I have never met her in person she has found a special place in my heart. It doesn't cost me much to help her, about a dollar a day. Yet, millions of people in this world live on less. The joy that helping her gives me, however, is beyond price. It connects...

Terrible Situations Can Lead To Wonderful Changes In Life

By Ayayoska on December 26, 2016 / 5,623 views

A bit over a year ago my dad's health started deteriorating rapidly. he went from being a fully independent person to not being able to drive, walk or talk properly. he couldn't even think coherently, like his mind was in some other place. Last Christmas party he stayed in a dark corner all quiet and with no energy which shattered my heart like you have no idea. In the next weeks his organs...

If You Want To Hitch, Pay!

By Dadeaux on December 21, 2016 / 4,150 views

Back in 1980's I used to study in the city about 80 km (50 miles) away from my home town. I'd go home more or less every weekend, to have my clothes washed, to replenish my food supplies, and of course to spend a weekend with my loved ones. I didn't have much money, so I regularly hitched. On that Friday a car stopped, and I asked the driver if he was going to my home...

A Smile Is A Gift Worth Giving

By Kay Heitsch on December 21, 2016 / 3,251 views

I'd never really thought about giving a smile as a gift until this morning. Sometimes a smile is the best gift you can give someone. Yesterday I was in the grocery store. I saw an older man standing with a sad look on his face. I walked by and gave him a big smile. Immediately, his eyes brightened and he smiled back. I don't know why he looked so sad, but for that moment in time he...

My Husband Pointed Out My Wrinkles

By Carli on December 20, 2016 / 4,186 views

By Carli on December 20, 2016 / 4,186 views

My husband and I have been together for a bit over 10 years. We met when we were 16, it's no surprise that we've both changed over time. I've been noticing some winkles here and there, mainly under my eyes and eye corners. Nothing major but... it's there. This weekend after not seeing each other for a week, my husband takes a long good stare at me. We often do this, because you...

At Christmastime And Always

By Joseph J. Mazzella on December 19, 2016 / 4,009 views

I have always loved Christmas music and I don’t just listen to it in December either. I have been known to listen to "The Christmas Song" on the first day of Spring, "Jingle Bells" during the worst heat of Summer, and "Let it snow" while the leaves are peaking in the Fall. This year thanks to the gift of a new record player I was even able to play some of my Mom’s old...

A Motherless Christmas

By L. M. Frye on December 19, 2016 / 3,504 views

My memory, my own, real memory of Christmas. You know the one that no one told you the story about or you have seen so many pictures that you think you remember it, but really you remember someone else version of it..... this is my first real Christmas memory.... I am not even sure how old I was. It is sad really, because I am sure I was about 8 or so... yet I cannot remember. I had done my...

Don't Tell Me The Odds

By Banan on December 19, 2016 / 3,043 views

When I was 12 I wanted to be a graphic designer and people told me it would be really hard since the amount of people who wants to be one is huge. I never gave up and worked hard and now I work for a big international company who cooperates with Dreamworks and Pixar as a graphic designer. Never give up if you really want to achieve your...

The Truth Is, I Don't 'Have It All Together'

By Dani Thompson on December 17, 2016 / 1,785 views

By Dani Thompson on December 17, 2016 / 1,785 views

Recently I have had a few friends and family members comment to me, 'you seem to always have it all together.' I want people, especially other moms out there to know that, I try, but the truth is, I don't 'have it all together.' In today's world, so many parents think they need to live up to a stereotype that in my personal opinion, completely hinders our abilities to enjoy the true...

Positive Responses To The Refugee Crisis

By Harri on December 16, 2016 / 1,595 views

After months of staring in disbelief at the news about the refugee crisis last year, a few friends and I decided to use our interests and skills to take action. We organised a sponsored relay cycle from London to Athens to raise money for a refugee community centre in Athens. It went really well, we had 43 cyclists participate and we managed to fundraise £48,000, which is enough to pay for the rent and...

A Hundred Years From Now

By Warren Parker on December 16, 2016 / 2,078 views

It will not make much difference friend a hundred years from now, If you live in a stately mansion or a floating river scow. If the clothes you wear were a tailor made or just pieced together somehow, If you eat big steaks or beans and cake a hundred years from now. Won't matter what your bank account or the maker of car you drive, For the grave will claim all...

My Christmas Miracle: The Day Death Took A Detour

By CE Johns on December 14, 2016 / 1,980 views

Miracle - A surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore considered to be the work of a divine agency. ~ Webster's dictionary Not only do I believe in miracles, I expect them to occur in my life in answer to my prayers. Although we don't hear about divine miracles as often nowadays (probably because bad news pushes them off the front...

I Married Young And I Felt Unhappy And Depressed

By TheFunnyWeirdo on December 13, 2016 / 3,135 views

I got married when I was 23 years old, and for a while I was unhappy. I couldn't break up our marriage cuz I had always believed divorce was not an option. So I tried to live one day at a time, not over-thinking the future, hoping that things will get better some day. The problem was, it was all me, my wife didn't do anything to upset me and she's genuinely innocent. I didn't laugh when she was...