. A few months ago, my friend and I were in the hairdressers. She and I both have disabilities and are in wheelchairs. At the start of my haircut I was told that it would cost me about $80. Not sure how much it cost my friend, but much cheaper. Anyway, at the end of…
. I was working a corporate job I hated but the money was decent. It was about three days before Christmas. I’d headed to the supermarket for groceries and in the ice cream section I found a woman weeping. I asked her what was wrong and she explained that her husband had cleared out the…
Carrol is a scruffy looking, 48 year old painter. When he is able to find work, he always stops by the cart for a hot dog, usually bringing others with him and telling everyone within earshot how great my Heavnly dogs are. When his job ends, he is out looking for another one, often to…
. There is so much in the news about the bad kids and not enough about the good kids. I want to tell you what happened to my grandsons due to their kindness to elderly people. During “Children’s Moment” at church on Sunday, our Children’s Minister told the kids that when he was in the…
. Last Christmas eve, my daughter and I were at Walmart buying a Christmas dinner feast for a family we’d heard was in need. While we were there, we saw a young couple approach a family that looked like they were struggling financially. The couple chatted with the family a little and then gave them a…
. I was at the counter in a convenience store paying as two young girls (probably 7 and 9) came in and told the guy behind the counter they didn’t have any money, they were hungry, can they have a lil something off the shelf. He said of course and they each got a bag…
. I was working in a hospice 25 years ago. This particular night, we were full – 12 patients with just me and one other nurse on night duty. Around 10pm, I was trying to get the night time medications dispensed so people could get pain relief and start to think about sleeping.
. During World Kindness Week, I wanted to do something nice whilst remaining anonymous, so I stuck $2 on my work vending machine. I left a little note and included the Ripple Kindness web address. The following week, the $2 was still there.
. 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…
. 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….
. 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…