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By Lettie on January 22, 2021 / 236 views
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When I met and married a kind Japanese man in NYC, I thought he would learn a bit more English and we would continue to live our lives there. But in life's twists and turns we ended up living in Tokyo! I was the one who needed to learn Japanese...and fast! There is no experience quite as lonely as living in a foreign country without a grasp of the language. Especially to make friends and to break that...
By A Friend on January 22, 2021 / 308 views
We have met, just not in person. I am a mortgage banker so I do my financial transactions over the phone and computer. This lady is a borrower of mine and I have done two of her refinances over the past couple of years. She is not a woman that is my mother‘s age, not a grandmotherly type of client, because men or women of that age are always very loving and they check up on me. This woman is my...
By Shining Brown on January 20, 2021 / 449 views
Last month I took my son Tom to see his grandparents in the countryside. When we arrived, my father and mother were so happy to see us. Tom’s nana hugged and kissed Tom excitedly. Then his grandpa took him to the yard to play. My mom went to her kitchen to prepare our meal. I knew my Tom was curious about everything in his grandparents’ home, and he would be very excited. At lunch table,...
By Joseph J. Mazzella on January 18, 2021 / 557 views
By Joseph J. Mazzella on January 18, 2021 / 557 views
It was the Summer of my 16th year. I was 2000 miles away from home and my heart was aching. I had traveled from the mountains of West Virginia to the great plains of Iowa. I was with a group of boys touring a Seminary college. When the trip had first started I was filled with excitement. It was going to be a week of adventure, a week of travel, and the possibility of starting on a new path in my life. Now 5...
By @Sagihairius on January 14, 2021 / 946 views
I work as an actor at a haunted house and this little girl who was dressed as a cat came through she saw me and was like 'no thank you please dont get closer I am already scared' and I was like alright I appreciate the good manners I'll back off. So her dad picks her up and starts going down the rest of my dark hall and I just hear her yell 'everybody wait! i dropped my ears'...
By A Friend on January 14, 2021 / 1,340 views
I asked my dad if I have ever made him cry in front of me before, because I don't remember ever seeing him cry. He said, 'Once.' He told me that when I was 3 years old, he laid out a pen, a dollar, and a toy of some sort in front of me. He wanted to see which one I would pick. l think that a lot of Chinese people do that... It represents what you'll value most when you...
By A Friend on January 11, 2021 / 948 views
My dad went to clean an old ladies oven, she called the company before and asked if he could pick her up some fish and chips for lunch as she couldn't leave the house. He sent me this picture of him sat with her, eating lunch together an keeping her company. To say I cried, the purest heart to ever live. He wouldn't share it so I just had...
By Joseph J. Mazzella on January 05, 2021 / 1,464 views
By Joseph J. Mazzella on January 05, 2021 / 1,464 views
The mountains where I live are full of turning, twisting, narrow, curvy roads. I was driving down one of those roads last Spring. Days of on and off rain had made the ground muddy and hillsides mushy. As I rounded a curve I saw that the weakened soil had released a tree on the hill by the road. It was now laying on the asphalt blocking my lane. I hit the brakes and slowly drove around it. Then I stopped. I...
By A Friend on January 04, 2021 / 1,146 views
I’ve hosted a friend since November due to their depression. Today she made her bed for the first time. She's at the store right...
By Joseph J. Mazzella on December 28, 2020 / 1,420 views
By Joseph J. Mazzella on December 28, 2020 / 1,420 views
It was the day after Christmas 33 years ago. I was newly married and still in college. Only 10 days earlier my wife had gone into labor with our first child. It was a scary delivery that ended in an emergency C-section. We were so grateful to have Joseph John Mazzella II also known as JJ sleeping peacefully in the cradle next to our bed. The day before we had been on the road showing off our little...
By A Friend on December 27, 2020 / 1,397 views
Something nice that I definitely needed tonight. For the past 15 years, my family (all 13 of us that are local) has gone Christmas caroling in my neighborhood, it’s tradition. We aren’t good at it, but we love doing it. It’s the one time of the year we can see some of our neighbors that we don’t see regularly, and in general, do something fun. This year, for...
By Judith Maduhu on December 22, 2020 / 1,923 views
By Judith Maduhu on December 22, 2020 / 1,923 views
So I and my two girlfriends were taking an evening walk one beautiful day when one of my friend's sandals just snapped. We were in the middle of our way back home and it was really a long way to go, as we were trying to figure out what to do and try some failed DIY's we heard a gentle male voice say 'hey girls i think i can help with that'... We were delighted to hear that and the...
By Courtney on December 18, 2020 / 1,205 views
I'd just like to share something my children have done. My daughter is 9 and my son is 6. Recognizing that this has been a very difficult year for a lot of people my daughter decided that she would like to raise money for our local homeless shelter. After some discussion we came up with the idea of having a math-athon and the children completed math problems and solicited...
By Joseph J. Mazzella on December 18, 2020 / 1,644 views
By Joseph J. Mazzella on December 18, 2020 / 1,644 views
I was sitting at my kitchen table the other day with a pen, notebook, calculator, and a stack of bills. I was doing my monthly budget. There were bills for electric, water, rent, insurance, the car payment, the phone bill, and the cable bill. Plus money needed to be set aside for food, gas, clothes, and hopefully a little left over to save for those unexpected bills that always seemed to show up. When I was...
By A Friend on December 12, 2020 / 1,557 views
I wanted to share a positive story and spread some of that same love around. A few weeks ago my very old, mostly blind dog decided to go on a walk about. When I tried to call for him he got disoriented and ended up going down into a hill covered in blackberry bushes. If you’ve ever lived in the PNW, you'd understand how awful that really is. I was so distraught and lost as to...
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By Unknown on December 11, 2020 / 4,333 views
A professor gave a balloon to every student, who had to inflate it, write their name on it and throw it in the hallway. The professor then mixed all the balloons. The students were given 5 minutes to find their own balloon. Despite a hectic search, no one found their balloon. At that point the professor told the students to take the first balloon that they found and hand it to...
By A Friend on December 11, 2020 / 1,602 views
Today a homeless lady asked if I could buy her dinner, so I thought 'sure why not!'. While I was paying, the cashier noticed the homeless lady waiting outside and asked me if I was buying the food for her. I said yes, and the cashier gave me her food for free! One good turn deserves...
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