. My mother-in-law freaked out today when I got us lost in an area that is not really very safe. I was pretty sure I was going in the direction I needed, I just had to go further than I thought. So at the next light, I pulled up beside the next car and rolled…
. A few years ago I had stopped for milk at the local corner store bringing with me my friend’s two year old boy who I’d babysit. As I was at the checkout paying, a couple of young teenage boys entered the store. I paid and left the store, buckled in the toddler and as…
. I had my two boys with me yesterday while I did my grocery shopping. Our supermarkets are offering a Collector Cards promotion where you get 1 pack of card for every $20 you spend. My boys were given 30 packs of cards from my own purchases, plus 2 other ladies who didn’t want their…
. Meals on Wheels is an organization run here in Australia by administrators and volunteers. Volunteers cook the food and deliver it and I am one of the volunteers who deliver the food, either by using my car or taking the meal inside to the people. It is like stepping back in time, when you…
. I observed an elderly lady with a walker trying to cross a street. She was aware that traffic was waiting on her so she was trying to hurry. A passenger in one of the waiting vehicles got out and asked if she could escort the women across the road. The lady was so pleased…
So, my RAK worked today! Was in our local corner shop and an old gent, a pensioner comes back in asking if anyone had seen a fiver that he had dropped just minutes before when in the shop. We looked everywhere, but couldn’t find it, he was pretty upset as he needed it to put some…
. Sometimes I feel like I practically live at the grocery store. I was at the deli counter AGAIN and joking with the guys behind the counter about how often I’m there, and I feel a small body snuggle itself to my side and arms go around my waist. I knew immediately someone mistook me…
. A lady was walking by my house recently on the street as the snow plows had not cleared the side walks… we are having a terrible snowy/cold longer than normal winter… she was walking on a busy street by my house. I decided to pull over and ask her if I could offer her…
. This morning I went to breakfast with my daughter after she finished her 9 mile run in preparation for a half marathon in the coming months. As we were leaving, a man was approaching in a manual wheelchair, his wife walking behind him. As I seen him, I opened the door and stood waiting…
. I visited Dominican of Republic in 1998 after Hurricane Mitch had ravaged the Island. I gave my friend Ruby my favorite dress. Actually I gave all of my clothes to the Dominican women because clothes are a precious commodity on an island. Well anyway, a few years later I was at a store and…
. A couple of years ago, I moved across the country with my family. I was lonely and didn’t know anyone. My husband brought a friend home for dinner one night – he was a homeless man who was friends with my husband’s mom. He lived in a tent on someone else’s property and worked…
. My Mom and Dad were moving back from South Texas and met a family along the way. The man had lost his job and they were moving somewhere also. They needed a bed. My parents took one of the beds out of their trailer and gave it to them. At the time I was…