Kindness Starts With One^®

My 85-year-old mother lives in Arizona. I am going to visit her next week, so she picked up a rollaway bed from a local provider in her area for my use. They helped her load it into the trunk of her car, but she voiced aloud that she was a little concerned about how she was going to get it...

My "One" is actually Three. There are three loving hearts down in Nashville that I’d like to tell you about who practice Random Acts of Kindness year round. In fact, they make it a part of their daily existence. These three hearts are Jamey Garner, Kevin D. Campos, and Phoenix Mendoza. 

You might not think, at first glance, that these...

I prefer to do random acts of kindness anonymously, so I will share only a couple of things. Our community raises money by donating returnable bottle money for fuel for people to heat their homes. I donate funds to this. I also paid to have a neighbor's driveway plowed all winter. Her husband died, she was going to lose the...

I was in a small candy shop with my co-workers and we were talking as we were selecting a gift for our other colleague. The shopkeeper overheard us and asked, "Excuse me, ladies, you are teachers?" When we answered that yes, indeed, we were, he showed us a big paper box full of those chocolate advent calendars. There were approximately...

My husband is critically ill. My children are coming to see us this weekend and I wanted the house and yard to look pretty for them. A workman and his helper who have done repairs and painting for us this past year offered to help in any way they could. I called the workman to get a rusting trellis down and to...

This is my club volleyball team. They are always looking for ways to do random acts of kindness. They sent birthday cards, balloons, noise makers, and this picture to a complete stranger! They saw a news article requesting birthday cards for a gentleman who was turning 93 and wanted to help him celebrate!

#doinggood #leadingsmall #simplebutsincere

Coach Mel

Bought the two cars behind me their order at Dunkins. One looked like a young student and the other car looked like a young mother with a child in a car seat. Hopefully I made their day! :)

When I was a freshman at a junior college in New York state, the dean of students was a much older man in his 60s. He was from my hometown and happened to be a former busboy during highschool at the same Italian restaurant that I was a busboy at during highschool. He was an all American lacrosse goalie in...

When my children were very young, someone filed a false charge of abuse against me. A worker from CPS came to my home to check out the complaint. She examined my four children, all five years old or younger. She also spoke with with a woman I cared for who had multiple sclorosis, who was the mother of my friend...