. When my grandpa was one, his mother died and his father couldn’t cope with 5 children so he put them into a home. My grandpa was too young, so he lived with the neighbours until they couldn’t care for him anymore and he also went into a home, but a different home. They were…
. On Tuesday it would have been my mom’s 87th birthday. I went to vote here in the U.S., then went to a fast food place to get a breakfast biscuit. They ran out before breakfast was over and the man in front of me was quite rude to the young girl taking his order, being…
. A friend of mine is really poor. Now I am not saying that meanly, I myself am poor, but she is much worse off. She had never had a real piece of jewelry her whole life so for her birthday last year I went into a pawn shop to find her a nice piece…
. I teach newly arrived immigrant teenagers English as a Second Language. Many of these children come to me from countries where their living condition are horrible and life-threatening. Often, one of the parents comes to the US and works, sending home money so that smugglers can be paid to bring other family members here (usually…
. The following story is proof what goes around comes around. I was at the book fair with my son. We were behind two brothers waiting to be checked out. They each had two books.
. One day I was in Newton Center, MA at just the moment a young woman, carrying a not to tightly bound sheaf of dollar bills, was pushed by the wind and somehow let go of them. No doubt she was en route to the local bank to make a deposit for a local business….
. My cardiologist is amazing. He knew I was in bad shape physically and financially and that I had no insurance. He wrote my whole hospital bill off (about $25,000), got my meds for me and a c-pap machine at totally no cost to me! He helped me get my disability too! I’m so blessed…
. When I was checking out at the market the other day, the clerk, a sweet young lady whom I’d never seen before, looked up at me with her big beautiful eyes and said “well, don’t you look pretty this morning!”Now keep in mind I am 83 years old, but at that moment, she made…
. When I was 18 I had a seasonal job as a package handler at UPS. It was the twilight shift and in the middle of nowhere. It was late when my shift was through. The buses had either stopped running or weren’t coming for hours. As I sat at the bus stop alone and…
. I am going to bare a bit of my soul here when I share an experience that I believe has truly shaped who I am as a person and an educator. Although I believe I was always passionate about teaching, an experience nearly three years ago totally changed my outlook on what it means…
I’d spent almost 2 hours washing and ironing on Sunday morning and asked each of my children to come and get their piles of clothing from the kitchen table to put away. About 30 minutes later, my youngest son yelled out to find out where I was. He came to my bedroom and said, “mum,…
. When I worked in the emergency room as a nurse, a very sick man came in by ambulance, he’d had a stroke. He was awake and very agitated, but could hardly speak and had paralysis on one side. By listening very closely, I learned that his dog was home alone and he was so…