You love your significant other (SO), but you’re tired of getting them the same gifts year after year. If you’re honest about it, half of the fun of gift-giving is seeing the recipient’s reaction when they open whatever you got them. This time around, you’re looking to give something that will make them and YOU laugh. That’s why we’ve compiled a list of four funny gift ideas for your significant other. 1. An Oversized Photo The one gift that’s better than burnt toast and coffee (also known as your best attempt at making breakfast for your partner) is giving them the gift of seeing your face ev ..read more

Aging gracefully is something we all aspire to, but it’s not always easy. The good news is, there are plenty of ways to make the process a little bit easier – and a lot more enjoyable!In this post, we’ll share some tips on how to age like a champ. Because let’s face it, life is too short to spend it feeling down about ourselves. So let’s embrace our age, and enjoy every minute of it!  Stay positive.   One of the most important things about aging gracefully is maintaining a positive attitude. No matter what life throws your way, remember that you can always choose to look on the ..read more

Luke Andreski 1: An insult “You hopeless f***! Just leave me alone!” “Don’t be so hopeless!” “You’re hopeless, aren’t you?” It’s a term of abuse. Being hopeless. Of course it is. It suggests you’ve given up. That you’re good for nothing. 2: Hopelessness To be ‘hopeless’ suggests a flounderer – someone with so little optimism that they’ve become incompetent. Someone who’s lost all energy and drive. Someone whose intelligence is diminished by a failure of will. Someone who’s forgotten how to try, who’s become inept. Someone you don’t really want around. Who would disagree? It’s neither desirab ..read more

Kindness Blog I picked up my little man (3) from daycare at 6pm and headed out to the local mall to pick out Christmas gifts for daddy and the dog. Maybe I’m crazy, but I really wanted him to pick his own gifts, not me just putting his name on something. So the mall is busy to say the least. Lines are long, people are pushy and it’s hot because I couldn’t carry our coats too. Not the end of the world of course, but you know what it’s like trying to shop 5 days before Christmas with a three-year old right? It’s a battle, little man just wants to pick out tractors for himself and won’t wait in ..read more

Kindness Blog My parents, at the height of the Depression, were forced to go on home relief, which is known as welfare today. It was 1935, when I was 10 years old, and we lived on the first floor of a walk-up apartment on 43rd Street, in Brooklyn, New York. A few days before Christmas, I looked out a kitchen window to see my father sitting on the stoop, dejected and depressed, with tears in his eyes. The mailman was approaching our building and asked my father what was wrong. I heard my father say that he had used up his food vouchers and that the rent was past due. He had tried to work as a ..read more

Happy Christmas x Kindness Blog In 1958, I was a first-year high school teacher in Beatty, Nevada. On Dec. 22, I headed home to Idaho in my 1951 Hudson to spend Christmas with my parents. Just south of Fillmore, Utah, a radiator hose broke and the car started to overheat. I hitchhiked into Fillmore and got a ride to a Chevron station. I explained my plight to the owner, Dan Brinkerhoff, who sent a tow truck to bring in my car. Dan discovered that the engine had become so hot it had warped the head, so he called a nearby wrecking yard and found the needed part. I boarded a Greyhound bus ..read more

A simple, yet powerful, moment when a kind soul does an anonymous act of genuine kindness ..read more

True kindness is being kind without exception. It means being nice to the lonely old man in his geri chair, it means being compassionate to the woman in a nursing home, and it also means treating the person you don’t like the way you want to be treated. It’s easier to be kind to friends and family, but true kindness is all-encompassing; it includes everyone. Here are a few people who we sometimes forget to treat the way we would want people to treat us. Older People Older people have more life experience than us. However, sometimes people forget that, and don’t treat these people, who have bee ..read more

There are creatures the size of mountains swimming beneath the ice. There are babies laughing at things you can’t see. That quiet old woman there, sitting in the corner: she has seen some shit, man. The lushest plants have their roots in shit, and the lushest people, too. They do not rise above the shit, their roots dangling like car wash tentacles as they levitate in the air. They sink into it.  They build their foundation in it. They do not transcend, they embody. And they grow. They grow above the shit. They grow into the shit. They grow of the shit. You are not a snipped and dying dai ..read more

Beautiful, beautiful healing…x rarasaur Your body is not small. The total surface area of the human lung could be spread to the height of a brachiosaurus. If you want to heal, you must first find every bruised place. Your body is not obvious. It sheds forty thousand cells every minute, and who knows how many of those were the last to remember the bruising? Just in case, count their ancestors in your census of pain. Even a cell can inherit a wound. Next, you must tell somebody where it hurts. You have to be specific, and this may take some time. The human heart beats 100,000 times per da ..read more