Most days on my way to work, I see this old black man walking his bike on the highway. Attached to the back is this child carrier (the ones you hook on to take your child for a ride). It looks as if he picks up thing off the road. He is never riding the…
My son is 8 and this year we’ve committed to encouraging his physical pursuits as he leans more naturally to the arts. We signed him up to a local weekend sports club and at his first session we knew he was going to be one of those kids who enjoyed the events, but was not going…
We’ve had a slow leak on the faucet outside that we have a water hose connected to and the fixtures are very old so I was afraid to touch it in case I broke a pipe or fitting.
I was taking a train and bus home from work and I had finished slightly later than normal and unfortunately, missed my usual bus. I caught the next one into my suburb but hadn’t realised that it didn’t go down the main road as the other one did.
Today, I went to see a surgeon that I never met about getting my gallbladder out. During the visit, I got to telling him that my 9-year-old had just had a subtotal colectomy with an ileostomy and how she is having such a hard time with the skin under this ostomy bag. When I told…
I have a strong memory of gratitude from when I was a child that is still as vivid today as it was all those years ago. I remember walking into my bedroom one day after school to discover a brand new pair of aqua colored jeans on my bed. I was so excited and grateful…
For the past three days, I have been doing all the laundry in the Nursing Home that I oversee as an Administrator. I have been filling in for an unexpected opening.
I gave a lady a ride home to get her extra set of car keys as she’d locked them in her car and waited to take her back to her car. As we talked, we worked out that I know her son. What a great feeling to help. Made my day. – Rena 😀 A…
I was diagnosed with stage 4 Follicular Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma in May 2004. My youngest child was only four at the time. Ten months later, my dad died and 30 hours after my dad passed away, my husband died. The doctors were giving me very little hope for raising my son.
Today, as I walked into the city to run some errands, I noticed a very large truck was ‘stuck’ on the corner of two streets. The driver had been trying to maneuver it out, but didn’t see how to move forward or backward anymore. Some people had come out of their homes. The driver was…
We finally made it overseas after trying to get there for years. We arrived on Thursday but ended up in hospital on Saturday with a “rare” blood disorder. I’d had all my check ups prior to travel; saw the dentist, doctor, mammography, so this came out of the blue.
AÂ few weeks ago, I was on my lunch break and had to run to Walmart to pick up a few school supplies for my son. As I was walking towards the door I noticed a mom and her son with a sign, which at that point I couldn’t see what it said, but they were…