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To that woman, I saw you. I saw you elbow your husband when we sat down. I saw you stare a hole through the woman that was trying to have a family dinner with the two of us. I saw you laugh. I saw you talk. I smiled at your daughter who made a point to look at us. I held back hurt. I held back mean words. I also held back the basket of chips I wanted to throw at your table. I’m not oblivious to racism. I’ve sadly […]

“I was on my usual  running path  when I heard an older man yelling loudly  enough for me  to hear  through my headphones.  “Sexy lady,  hey  hey hey sexy lady?” He kept screaming it and I decided to just ignore him and keep running. This ignoring seemed to piss him off so he lashed out and said “eff you, dumb B****!” Now let’s keep in mind he was well-dressed and appeared to be on his lunch break from an office job. That was my trigger point. The B word. I […]

Happy 65th birthday to astronaut Ellen Ochoa, who became the first Latina woman in the world to go to space during a mission aboard the space shuttle Discovery in 1993. An electrical engineer with a PhD from Stanford University, Ochoa is now the veteran of four space flights and has logged nearly 1,000 hours in space. During her inaugural flight, Ochoa, who is also a classical musician, played her flute in space as part of an educational event for children. In 2013, she made history once again by becoming the […]

DAILY POSITIVE IMPACT – WAYS TO MAKE YOUR TIME MATTER I have posted in the past the importance of reading positive news as a way to be more positive and energized during these difficult times in which we live. Here are the 9 positive news sources I have listed previously. www.goodnewsnetwork.org www.Dailygood.org www.goodnewsplanet.com www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news www.optimistdaily.com www.positive.news/ www.yesmagazine.org tinybuddha.com/ www.ted.com/ I will be sharing a positive impact post from each of these resources over the next couple weeks. “How to Make Your Time Matter” is the first from Daily Good. https://www.dailygood.org/story/2835/ten-ways-to-make-your-time-matter-oliver-burkeman/ […]

Country singer Dolly Parton wrote the songs “I Will Always Love You” and “Jolene” on the same night. When the first song was at the top of the charts in 1974, Elvis wanted to record his own version of the song. Dolly was interested until Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis’ manager, said that it was standard procedure that when the king of rock and roll covered a song – half of the rights to that song would go to him in the future. She refused it. “I said, ‘I’m really, really […]

A woman received a call on Christmas Eve,  “Hi, you don’t know me but  I  have  your brother.” The woman’s brother’s name is Joey. He is 64 years old and mentally challenged. Joey works at The North Park Theater so his sister believes he went there Thursday, got scared and stayed over, and then decided to walk back to his home. A woman named Sha’Kyra Aughtry heard someone crying and asking for help. Her boyfriend Trent went outside to look and found Joey and carried him out of the snow […]

“When we saw a young 28-year-old, tattooed sleeved, army medic walk into our room and introduce himself to us as our labor and delivery nurse, I’m not going to lie, I was a little skeptical. Within minutes though, he quickly proved us wrong. From the moment he saw me, he told me what a champ I was for staying so calm. When I told him I had a feeling the baby was going to come fast, he looked at me and said, ‘I believe you. We’re going to make this […]

Much of what I have written in this positive impact blog has been focused on providing ideas and  resources that energize readers to help our world be a better place.  A motivator for many people over  the years has been music. Is music a motivator  for you? I encourage you to relax and think of music that has energized you and write them  down.  Once you do that answer this question; when was the last time you listened to any of the music you listed?  If you do that regularly […]

Natural World “An elderly veteran on hospice wanted to get a meal with his wife at a local pizza restaurant. There he sat with his oxygen machine and his cap that identified his branch of service in a long past war. In the same restaurant, a middle school choir was also enjoying lunch. Several of them saw him and started to sing the national anthem. The entire choir stood up, faced him, and joined in singing. This old and broken down warrior struggled to stand, placed his hand/cap over his […]

Daily Dose Of Kindness – http://kinddose.com/ Late last night Myles went on & on about how he had to be twins with a boy in his class for Twin Day because they look exactly the same- same eyes, same hair. He was adamant that they were identical. So after the kids went to bed I headed to Walmart at 9pm to get matching outfits. Their teacher sent me this picture today. My heart melted. Obviously two very different children, but Myles didn’t see that. Wouldn’t the world be such a […]