Kindness Can Put Spark Back into Your Love Life
Do you think of love in terms of passion and hearts and romance? Or do you see love as a test of endurance? Does your love still sparkle, or have the lights gone out? When Saul and I started dating,...
View ArticleMissing Money Begins Chain of Kindness
I remember when I first read the book, “How Fargo of You” by Marc de Celle. I was captivated by the stories of kindness weaved through this man’s everyday life as he moved his family from sunny...
View ArticleShow Kindness By Reminding People They Are Not Alone
My girlfriend is talking about going back to work. She’s not certain she can swing it with three small children at home, but she feels like she should be using the degree she worked so hard to earn. I...
View ArticleKindness Comes in Handy During Car Troubles
I hit a car the other day. I was attempting to parallel park, and somehow the gray of my minivan ended up on the side bumper of the other person’s tan car. I was devastated, and mortified since it...
View ArticleThe Kindness of Mrs. Johnson Lives On
Every once in a while, a person comes into your life just for a season. We’d like it to be longer, but the gift we were given has an expiration date, and for one reason or another, the time comes when...
View ArticleGirl Finds Kindness in an Easter Basket
The Easter Bunny stopped showing up at my house around the time my parents got divorced. Come to think about it, Santa stopped showing up around then, too. I suppose it’s no great tragedy. I was in...
View ArticleFriends & Strangers Come Through With Moving Kindness
Being a coach’s wife has its perks. I got to take my kids to the NCAA Men’s Final Four basketball tournament this past weekend in Indianapolis. For most people, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience....
View ArticleKindness Says ‘Happy Birthday’ Best
I’m turning the big 4-0 this week. When I was a kid, 40 sounded so old, but now that I’m here, I have to say I would never want to go back to being 20 or 30. My skin may be a little wrinkly, but it’s...
View ArticleChallenge Yourself to Kindness
There is a woman in California who may love kindness even more than I do. I know, it’s shocking. Her name is Marla and I’m thinking of road-tripping to sunny California to see if it’s true. I may even...
View ArticleBeing Kind Doesn’t Have to Make Sense
Just after moving to Ohio, I did something really weird. I was standing in line at the tiny neighborhood grocery store when a man came up behind me with a case of beer. He had to hold it because my...
View ArticleBe Kind Like Mister Rogers
I am cancer-free! My husband and I wistfully joke that someday we’ll look back and say, “Remember that summer I had breast cancer?” It’ll be just one more little chapter in the story of our lives. I’m...
View ArticleMy Daughter Fights Cancer With Kindness
I know a little girl whose momma had breast cancer this summer. As soon as the diagnosis was announced, that young lady, though she was just 11, set out to do whatever she could to spread kindness...
View ArticleBroken Back Leads To Many Acts Of Kindness
I love the way people look at me when I mention all the blessings that we experienced during my bout with breast cancer this past summer. The love I felt from friends, strangers and even my own family...
View ArticleReturning To The Place I Found Kindness
At this very moment, if all has gone well, I am on an airplane with my three children heading back to Fargo. It was the kindness of an event planner who first gave the idea wings, and the kindness of...
View ArticleKindness Eases The Pain Of Saying Goodbye To A Father
My friend’s father-in-law recently died. It came on suddenly. It wasn’t supposed to happen that way. They weren’t prepared. I wonder, when it comes to losing someone we love, if we’re ever really...
View ArticleIt Feels Good To Be Trusted
I wonder sometimes about the messages I send even when I am completely unaware. I have been known to roll my eyes and huff at my youngest son, “Can you please remember to bus your own spot after...
View ArticleBlanket Project Ties High School Friends Together
They say there are ties that bind, things that happen in our lives that leave us forever connected and intertwined with others. But what happens when decades begin to deteriorate our communication...
View ArticleMany People Benefit When We Strive To Become Our Best
I have yet to meet someone who says, “Nope. I’m not a kind person and I have no intention of changing.” We might agree that we have a little work to be done in the kindness area, but generally people...
View ArticleMother’s Kindness Ripples Far
There is a woman in my town who does a lot of good. I mean A LOT. She and her husband have been blessed with a successful local business, and they are constantly pouring into the community. The thing...
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