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Books
· Simon the Snowman

· Beside Still Waters

· Under Amber Skies

· Coastal Whispers

Short Stories
· Finding Ricky's Voice

· Worries Are Like Small Potatoes

· Five Generations of Women, Five Generations of Strength

· The Adventures of Gillyboat and Flea

· A Mug of Dreams

· The Man in Gray

· Parsley Rabbit Learned a Life Lesson

· All I Want for Christmas....

· The Grand Prize

· The Magic Bunny

Articles
· Love Letters for Valentine's Day

· Daddy’s Spirit Keeps Fallen Fathers in Children’s Hearts, Year-Round

· Broadcasting Relationship “Status” (on a shirt)? Is It Funny or Desperate?

· Resurrecting Love at Easter: Is It a Good Idea?

· The X’s & O’s of Love & Romance

· Relationship Obituaries: A New Way to Move Forward?

· Marriage Proposals by Women: Tips and Is Trend Really for Leap Year Only?

· The “After-Valentine” Valentine’s Day

· Valentine’s Day Gifts: Are Secrets and Surprises Taboo?

· Re-gifting (for the Right Reasons)

Poetry
· Fleeting Verse

· As I Was Leaving

· A Letter to Emily

· Empty Box

· Flying Free

· Life As I Now Know It

· For Susan Bachman – Missing from Pennsylvania

· Soft Light of Solitude

· Budding Relationships

· The Heartfelt Gift

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Random Acts of Kindness
11/13/2007 4:26:34 AM

As we approach the holidays, we will have so many opportunities to bless the lives of someone less fortunate, or someone who just needs a reason to smile.

This is World Kindness Week, but the opportunity to do something nice for someone else should not be for just the holidays; we can make a difference, every day of the year. By doing something nice for someone, our own lives will be blessed.

Here is a list of ideas.

Buy a meal for a young couple or family sitting next to you at a restaurant. Leave the Kindness card with the waitress to give them after you leave. It is a nice surprise they will never forget. It may even make them consider the mortality of their own children and lessen what time they may take for granted.

Partake in a Christmas Angel Program. Leave the card so they know your motivation of love!

Buy shoes or clothes for a family in need.

Bake cookies for a neighbor or teacher, just because.

Help an elderly person with yard work or grocery shopping. Many elderly people have a story or two to tell about their own baby that died many years ago.

Visit a nursing home and bring cupcakes. Sit and visit with a few of the residents. You'd be amazed at the loving reception you will receive as many residents rarely receive visitors.

Sign up to participate in a program such as Feed the Children. Your Kindness card will tell them the story of why you are doing this.

Donate to your favorite nonprofit group on your child's birthday or death day. Ask family members and friends to do the same.

Volunteer your time at a local homeless shelter or a crisis nursery.

Buy a new calendar for a workmate.

Donate some grief books to the library or a local support group.

Leave an extra large tip for your food server!

Buy the meal for the person behind you at the fast food drive through.

Leave a bouquet of flowers on someone’s front door step.

Bake goodies and take them to the police station, fire station, or hospital.

Pay a local teen to mow an elderly neighbor’s yard.

Crochet a baby’s blanket and take it to the hospital nursery. Premature babies can always use tiny booties and caps.

Buy a balloon bouquet and ask the nurses the children’s hospital to deliver them to a child.

Make a memorial donation to honor your loved one and a friend’s loved one.

Take a box of doughnuts to an elementary school for a classroom.

Plug someone’s parking meter.

Go to the post office in mid December and ask for of the “letters to Santa” that they get every year. Buy and send the gift on Christmas.

Adopt a street or just pick up litter in the neighborhood.

Leave your change in the soda machine for the next person. It's a nice surprise.

Buy coffee for the person standing behind you in line.

Write to management at places where you get especially good service and commend them (specify names!)

Tape a quarter to a pay phone with a note welcoming anyone who needs it to use it.

Adopt a family through a social service agency, not just at Christmas. People go hungry all year.

Plant a tree or some flowers for a local church. Perhaps offer to “build” a Memorial Garden.

Volunteer at a local shelter, crisis nursery or soup kitchen. This will give more to you than you can imagine.

Volunteer to read to children at your nearest library.

Send your child a note in his lunchbox. Remind them how special they are to you.

Organize a large toy, clothing and diaper drive for a crisis nursery.

Pay for a small child's candy at a convenient store.

Pay for someone's toll and/or gas.

Look for opportunities to open the door for someone or give up your seat for someone.

Buy lunch for the couple or family sitting next to you as you pay your own. Be sure to be secretive!

Buy a toy for a child in the store and ask the clerk to deliver it after you’ve gone.

Source: http://schools.hpedsb.on.ca/smood/kindness/ideas.htm

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