. I was traveling alone with my son with special needs yesterday. In a restaurant in the Orlando airport, he had a meltdown. We did our best to continue with our lunch, although he refused to eat his meal. He is a terrific little boy! He was just tired and did not want to leave…
. One day while I was out shopping, I saw a cleaner in the shopping centre wiping down tables in the food court. The look on her face was blank and distant and I wondered what it would be like to have spent so many years cleaning her own family home only to go out…
. When I left for a semester abroad in college, I stuck love notes everywhere around the apartment I shared with my roommates. When I was gone, they found them in coat pockets, books, sock drawers, and anywhere else I could think of to hide them. They loved finding the little surprises! My grandma used to…
I learned to pay it forward early. I was six years old and a nickel short of the candy I wanted. As I was trying to decide whether to give up the bubble gum or the Tootsie Roll, a man plunked a nickel on the counter for me and smiled. I don’t remember what he…
My mother died June 9th of this year, she loved to play our State Lottery. Every week for the last 25 years, she has played the same numbers on both lotteries each week. As she got older I would go pick up her lottery tickets for her each week. It got to be a joke…
We went to the local park for a family fun day today and you have to pay for parking. The ticket machine wasn’t working. Not knowing what to do, we just decided to take our chances, when someone who was leaving asked us if we wanted the parking voucher they had, as it still had…
I am a single mother of 5 children after my husband took his own life last year. I went down the street with my kids to buy tea (dinner). When we came back to the car, the sliding door on my van was stuck. I gave it too much muscle and the whole thing came…
This story will warm you better than a coffee in a cold winter day: “We enter a little coffeehouse with a friend of mine and give our order. While we’re approaching our table two people come in and they go to the counter – ‘Five coffees, please. Two of them for us and three suspended’….
I think the biggest most unbelievable act of kindness that saved us was when an acquaintance that we had known for years, but not well (their daughter was in preschool with our daughter). They knew we were struggling, had lost our business/home/cars etc. She walked up at the school open house and handed me an…
At the Belizze airport, I paid for coffee for the gal behind me and told her it’s my Random Act of Kindness. I then suggested she do something nice the next day, and she said she would. Yay!! – Barbara My boyfriend paid for the person behind him at Starbucks today. I’m so proud. –…
I was reading something this morning that reminded me of a random act of kindness that my daughter and her boyfriend were the recipients of this past summer. They were at a small town in Illinois doing a cheer camp when my daughter became ill. Her boyfriend decided to go to the local drug store to…
The litter that I buy for my cats has a coupon on the box that you cut off. When you collect 12 of the coupons you send it into the company and they send you a coupon for a free box of litter which is about $10.00. More than a year ago along with the…