Miracles From Generous Strangers

By Yvonne Conte on July 19, 2014 / 6,441 views

By Yvonne Conte on July 19, 2014 / 6,441 views

(I have lots more pictures and a video if you want) The Shore Vineyard in Toms River New Jersey was flooded during Storm Sandy and I went with my church on a mission to help the church and the families in Tom's River. While there working, I met Mr. & Mrs. Edwards who had lost their home and two vehicles in the storm. They had two small children and one on the way. They were one family and there were thousands...

Honesty!

By Rosemerry on July 18, 2014 / 7,301 views

This is a cute, and not so cute story about a life that retired. I am the mother of two grown sons I raised alone. I had a little child support help, under constant protest, alcoholic father in the picture that abused through words and striking, angry at mother, expressed anger to young boys who loved both of their parents. These boys grew up, saying they loved their mother, but when she retired, they turned into...

Try Again Tomorrow

By Joseph J. Mazzella on July 17, 2014 / 1,876 views

I have been driving for over 30 years now but I can still remember my first time behind the wheel like it was yesterday. My Mom had driven our big, blue Plymouth to a narrow, deserted back road and parked it. The road was only one lane and had a wall built with old, river rocks along the side of it, but Mom knew there was little chance of meeting any traffic on it that day. With a smile she gave me the keys and...

The God Behind The Sunrise

By Mary Nella McLaughlin on July 16, 2014 / 8,984 views

By Mary Nella McLaughlin on July 16, 2014 / 8,984 views

If someone points to the sunrise, point to the God behind the sunrise. I had a conversation with someone I had just met in the corner of a kitchen at a family gathering. Tom shared a little of his life. I asked some questions based on his story and he opened up more about his struggles. He finally blurted out, “To tell you the truth, the only time I feel good is when I go out to the bluff behind my house. I get...

We Just Keep Ridin'

By Jared Hicks on July 15, 2014 / 2,123 views

Jeremiah Brinkley, the man I met a few days ago in parking lot who has traveled all over 30,000 miles on one horse to fulfill his dream of swimming in the ocean and living life as being a "simple man" As I sit here tonight I'm trying to find all the right words. I don't claim to be a writer or anywhere near close to that. I'm just a girl with a camera that happened to meet an amazing man a few days ago, and at...

LET GO.

By Ruu on July 14, 2014 / 7,838 views

By Ruu on July 14, 2014 / 7,838 views

So I fought for it! And soon got through it. Just then I realized I'm right in front of my goal. All I ever wanted. And finally I get out there and explore a new world. But what next? Wanting to have a lifetime experience meeting new people, seeing new culture and having the time of my life. Much as some of us fight for it, my dream turned into reality. Thousand thought running in my mind. But then what...

She Couldn't Wait To Show Me

By Dawn on July 14, 2014 / 5,120 views

By Dawn on July 14, 2014 / 5,120 views

I work at a library and one of my patrons just won a gold medal at the Special Olympics for softball. She is very sweet and probably about 40 but acts like she's only 12. She's the one with her arms up in the picture. She could not wait to show me her medal :)...

A Sudden Change Of Shoes

By Paul Victor on July 14, 2014 / 1,560 views

I previously work as a pre-school teacher few years ago after I graduated in college. I went to the usual dilemma of newly grads, being so positively hopeful of life when the graduation is getting near only to find out that after that, it will be a tougher journey. And looking for an appropriate paying job is one of the challenge. So I end up teaching in a pioneering pre school with a little population. I...

Pinon Nuts

By Curt Struna on July 13, 2014 / 3,887 views

I worked on a construction site in the outback of Utah a long time ago. There was a Navaho reservation nearby and a lot of Navaho were working on the site. As you spoke with them, they would constantly be cracking and crunching and spitting out the shells. I finally asked what all the cracking and crunching was about and was told that they were eating pinon nuts. I was given a few. They are like pistachio nuts but...

Birthday Girl Returned Her Presents

By Mrs. B on July 12, 2014 / 7,221 views

I've been staring at the white walls of the video game store for about 2 hours since lunch. It was a very slow day, I glanced at the tables in front of the store,and my heart ache. It was the donation table for the victims of Typhoon Yolanda that wretched my country and even though I have donated what I can, I still feel sad whenever I saw the people on the TV suffering. I was broken out of my thoughts when the...

Recovery Becomes Painless When You Smile.

By Manisha Chopda on July 12, 2014 / 2,674 views

By Manisha Chopda on July 12, 2014 / 2,674 views

Being a psychologist, I would say this on a substantial basis, as this was how I recovered from the toughest phase of my life- by keeping a positive attitude and smiling. A conversation with my surgeon Dr. Sezhian confirmed my stance when he told me of the many reactions of the patients post-surgery. The ones who were more positive and resolute on becoming alright would surpass any complication with lesser...

Don't Be A Crab!

By Coach Muller on July 11, 2014 / 7,037 views

By Coach Muller on July 11, 2014 / 7,037 views

I decided to share a little bit of my life with you and tell you a short story of a lesson that I learned when I was a kid and still practice it to this day! I am a born and bred “clam digger”, a “shore boy”, a plain and simple man that grew up and lived at the beach. There was nothing better than going fishing with my brother and dad on the rock jetties by the local inlet trying to catch Fluke, Flounder...

NOW

By Joseph J. Mazzella on July 09, 2014 / 6,053 views

I haven't worn a watch for a few years now and I must say I don't miss it. I don't miss the band rubbing the hair off my wrist. I don't miss the heat rash it always gave me during the Summer. Most of all I don't miss constantly checking it to see if I am late. Still, when a little girl walked up behind me in the store the other day and asked me what time it was I found my arm going up to my face and my eyes glancing...

Fireworks!

By Curt Struna on July 05, 2014 / 6,018 views

My family had been invited to someone's hunting camp for a fireworks show a long time ago. The camp was a cabin in the middle of the woods and there were about 50 people there. The guys that were running the show had several thousand dollars worth of fireworks in the bed of a pickup truck which they parked by a pond about 200 feet from the cabin where everyone was sitting. They set off a few rockets and one of first...

My Life Is Over...No Regrets

By Coach Muller on July 05, 2014 / 1,818 views

By Coach Muller on July 05, 2014 / 1,818 views

This past year has been one of the most heart-wrenching and hardest years of my life. It was a week before Christmas, last year, when I lost my best friend in the world, my dad. A week or so later, as soon as I got home from his memorial service, I found out that one of my friends got killed in a snowmobile accident. He left behind a wife and a 3 year old son. From that time until today, four more people that I knew...

Coincidence

By Joseph J. Mazzella on July 01, 2014 / 1,505 views

I don't believe in coincidence. I haven't for a long time now. As I look back at all the trials, changes, and moments that have steered my life I can't believe that they were all just coincidence. Too many times something has put me on a different path. Too many times a triumph or tragedy has helped to shape my soul. Too many times an unexpected event has moved me to grow into who I was meant to be. Far too much has...

Hi I Am Pen And I Sell Pens

By Paul Victor on June 29, 2014 / 1,709 views

The perspective changing event happened on a very exhaustive day. The usual routine of our working lives through which there are alot of things that needed to be accomplished but time is so limited. A time that is so un-ideal to get immersed in so much introspection. A text message interrupted my so occupied brain soaked in so much thinking. A friend of mine from highschool asked me to hang out, a very untimely...