Random Acts of Giving

I learned many years ago that in doing random acts of giving, it can be a one time giving experience, while other times the giving continues, with me giving repeatedly. The latter is what transpired with the McDonald family. To this present time, I continue to give regularly to members of The McDonald Family (the [...]

School teachers have been leaving an impact on the children they teach since teaching began. Most of us have that mental list of the teachers we disliked and the teachers we liked. My recollections are the same as most, but I like to focus on a teacher who made a positive difference in my life [...]

I was a fairly new resident in the city that I presently reside in when I came to know a lady. Others had known this lady for many years, but I had only known her since she had become a millionaire — an event that had occurred just a few months prior. I have met [...]

Random acts of giving certainly do not have to be tangible. Sometimes, life calls upon us to be in a place or in a situation we fear — or for the most part are at least not comfortable in.  When we encounter such situations, it often requires courage. For many years, I used to think [...]

Sometimes we can give to others something we do not think we have.  Prior to our marriage, my husband purchased a home for us to start our new life together. We were doing away with the past and starting over, being that it was a second marriage for both of us. My husband was barely [...]

Jim was a short, slight man of over fifty years of age.  Actually, for as long as I knew Jim, he seemed to look the same age, and always worked as a taxi driver.  I was around sixteen-years-old the first time that I met Jim. I was a waitress, and Jim was a customer.  Over [...]

When I was around six-years-old, I had a friend named Freddie. Freddie came from a rather large and poor family, who lived on the next street, a couple of houses over from my family home. I remember feeling sad for Freddie and his family; his dad was blind, and could not work, therefore the family [...]

I saw a very unfortunate happening while driving into the city a couple of weeks ago. It upset me so much that I had to pull over until I could stop crying. On a busy city street, a beautiful light brown dog darted into the path of the vehicle beside me. It all happened so [...]

My world would never have been the same had I not met the many wonderful seniors that I did in my hundreds of visits to nursing homes. I am thrilled to say that I fell so deeply in love with many of the precious seniors that resided in those homes.  One very sweet, tiny lady [...]