Kindness Starts With One^®

Have you ever had your coffee paid in the drive-thru by the person in front of you? Have you received a letter that told you to have a great day with some cute lollipops taped to the notes?

It all started on a Monday night, although my best friend Emily and I had been wanting to do this for awhile...

In my home town of Harare, Zimbabwe, there is quite a large divide between the rich and poor. While in one area you see the wealthy splurging on expensive cars and homes, in another you bear witness to many impoverished people struggling to feed their family and pay fees to send their children to school.

A few days ago I...

Our family friend is 13 and has cancer. Although the neighborhood families have a huge collection going around, my family and I have not donated as my husband had suggested that we "do our own thing". With this personal connection and mission in mind,  I immediately ran to a sporting good store to buy him a pompom hat and matching...

In November of 2014, with the help of family and friends, I started RAK Friday in my town! The goal of RAK Friday was to transform "Black Friday" into RAK Friday with people committing as many Random Acts of Kindness as possible. We created a Facebook page for people to share their RAKs. On that one day in 2014, over...

And all through the grocery store, people were laughing and shopping, being jolly and bright. When what to my wandering eyes did appear, a gently aged man, looking left, looking right. "What's wrong", I did ask. He looked confused, embarrassed, quite red in the face. " Let me back up. Forgot my wallet. Needed ice cream for kids who just...

On Valentines Day, we had a couple come to the restaurant I work at, screaming about how we had stolen their credit card because they had left a bad review of their experience there. We calmly tried to explain how we could not and did not, but they would not go away until the police came. Even though we were...

For Random Acts of Kindness Day, my school's LEO club put note cards with motivational quotes on them in as many lockers as we could. We found a few of the cards scattered around the floors, but we were suprised to find that most were actually circulating the school. Even a few months later, my club advisor saw one of...

I became a very quiet 10.5-year-old little girl after my father passed away from a heart attack in his sleep. I was emotionally shocked and very short in conversation. My Mexican family culture taught me to not talk about my father's death, nor how to work through grieving the loss. I was daddy's little girl; how could he had left me!?...

.About two years ago I was l living at a homeless shelter and had been raped by one of the male residents who had started stalking me after I'd told someone what he'd done. There were some psychology stud err nuts from the local college who were there doing free counseling for college credits. After I told them what has...