Every week, Dan Dewey loads up his Chevy Cavalier with beverages from Starbucks and passes them out at a nearby cancer treatment center. It’s an act of kindness that began when Dan’s own father was a patient at the center. Now, “Dan’s Coffee Run” has become a Thursday tradition. Video from KarmaTube Want to help [...]
She sat at the bus stop right outside of the police station on Main and Cordova. It was a rough part of town but she figured she would be safe here while she waited for her bus to take her home. The sun was still hot that Sunday afternoon and there wasn’t anyone else out [...]
Scanning the internet for what’s new in the world can be a real eye opener. My conclusion is that people are weird. I was going to call this post “Only in America” but the more I looked around the web the more I realized that people are weird all over the world and it isn’t [...]
Tags: beads for boobs·electronic cigarette·Facebook·Heart Attack Grill·ifidie app·Latest News·linkedin·Pinterest·weird news
Since the recent death of Whitney Houston there has been a lot of talk on the airwaves about addiction. It hasn’t been confirmed yet, but most of us assume the root cause of her death was her addiction to drugs and alcohol. Right or wrong it is an honest assumption when you look back on [...]
Tags: addiction·Bill Clegg·compulsions·Dove chocolate·linkedin·Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man·red wine·What Are You Addicted To?·Whitney Houston
Rather than a video, I thought I would simply share this amazing and inspiring photo of Athlete (and so much more) Aimee Mullins. Some pictures are worth a thousand words and this one also inspires me to get up and get moving. If she can do it, then I really have no excuse not to. [...]
Tags: Aimee Mullins·Athlete·Inspiring Photo·inspiring woman·linkedin·prosthetic legs
Are you one of those people that love to get dressed up and go to fancy balls? Me? Not so much. I thought balls only existed in Cinderella’s world, but recently my husband and I were invited to go to one. The “Presidents Ball” no less, but before you get excited for me, it was [...]
Tags: Belair Golf and Country Club·Black Tie Preferred·Cinderella·fairy godmother·fancy balls·linkedin·little black dress·tuxedo
Dear Blogoshere, I know. It’s Friday. It’s my day to write something, but here’s the thing. I am deeply entrenched in another site at the moment. Every time I sit down at my computer to tap on the keyboard I decide I better just take a quick look at Pinterest first. You know, just to [...]
Tags: addicted to Pinterest·favourite recipes·Inspiration·linkedin·pinboards·Pinterest·time waster
Bonnie: “Did you just hurt yourself?” John: “No…a little bit.” Bonnie: “Are you bleeding? John: “No.” Bonnie: “Why is there blood dripping off of your hand?” John: “What? Oh…nothing.” Bonnie: “Do you want me to get you a bandage or a towel or something?” John: “No, I’m fine.” The above conversation has happened more than [...]
Tags: are you bleeding?·Are You Injured…Again?·denial·hospital visit·hurting yourself·injured·linkedin
Here’s a little narrative about my “biological” father; someone I’ve never given much thought to let alone write about before. It’s important that I put “biological” in front of the word father because I don’t want to confuse one with the other. I was raised and adopted by a man I call my father, or [...]
Tags: biological father·cold·emotional·linkedin·mother·Nature versus Nurture·strangers
I’m reading Joan Didion’s new book Blue Nights right now. In it she examines her thoughts, fears and doubts about having children, illness and growing old. Didion lost her only child, her daughter Quintana, in 2005. In her book The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion addressed the death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne. [...]
Tags: Abraham·aging·Blue Nights·children·cry·death·fear·illness·Joan Didion·linkedin·Quintana Roo Dunne·The Year of Magical Thinking
Christmas is over. Are you breathing a big sigh of relief like I am? All the weeks of preparation and shopping are behind us now. The bank account has shrunk but the waistline has grown. We have one son who left yesterday to go to New York to celebrate the New Year with his friends [...]
Tags: All the best for the New Year·As The Sun Sets on 2011·Christmas memories·extremely decorated neighbourhoods·linkedin·sunset on Crystal Beach Florida
I’m writing about bathrooms today. This post has been bubbling up in my subconscious ever since I went to use the restroom in a restaurant recently. I was faced with two doors. One had a picture of a rooster on it and the other a picture of a hen. My first thought was: Chickens? Why [...]
Tags: automated toilets·bathroom doors·Clam Shell or Sea Anemone?·hand dryers·linkedin·public restrooms
A few folks at Improv Everywhere constructed a custom wooden lectern with a megaphone holster and an attached sign that read: “Say Something Nice.” The lectern was placed in public spaces around New York and then left alone. What would happen when passerby’s were given the opportunity to amplify their voices to “say something nice”?
Tags: Improv Everywhere·linkedin·New York·Say Something Nice
I think four is the perfect age. You are still innocent, full of energy, life is simple and of course you believe in magic. I watched a four year old playing recently and I allowed myself the luxury of slipping into her world for a few moments… It was hot. Especially hot on the playground [...]
Tags: Four Year Old Wisdom·innocent·linkedin·play·sprinkler·tire horse swing
Disclaimer and Warning: The following post may or may not shatter any previous conceptions you may or may not have held that I am a nice, kind, gentle, at times even spiritual person. The following post will dispel all notions of those adjectives from your mind when you think of me after reading what follows. [...]
Tags: addiction·celebrites·CNN·James Wolcott·linkedin·Piers Morgan Tonight·The Pied Piper of CNN - Piers Morgan·Vanity Fair
Some days you wake up on the wrong side of the bed. Something just feels off. You get out of bed and stub your toe. You sit down on the toilet and discover you are out of paper. You’re not sure what sparks all of this negativity but you know it when it’s there. The [...]
Tags: CBC·chicken snackers·famine in East Africa·linkedin·Snap Out Of It!·Somalia·Tim Hortons
The world seems ripe with things that can get you down. If you are crazy enough to watch the news lately you will see children starving in Africa, teenagers being shot down in Norway, politicians unable to agree…on anything, young talents dying too soon, airplanes crashing, rich men raping, newspapers spying, the list goes on [...]
Tags: how to beat the doldrums·linkedin·Secret to happiness·summer fun·watermelon eating contest
