October 11, 2018 DarynKagan Businesses Who Rock, Family, Good News, Kids, Parenting, Uplifting Stories	
Meteorologist Susie Martin is also a mother who believes in the power of baby-wearing. She brought her son along for her forecast getting a deluge of responses.
A California family fears they’ve lost their home and their beloved pet fish when the raging Carr Fire forces them to evacuate. Firefighters save the day and the fish.
Strangers spy boy’s mother struggling and step up to help A young mother trying to get her son home from school in his wheelchair was overwhelmed by the kindness of strangers. Shannon Ranger shared on Facebook that when she set out to get her six-year-old son home from school Friday she didn’t realize just how bad the weather and snow was in her hometown of Edmonton, Canada. The snow was thicker and wetter than she was planning on. She and
Dozens of doughnuts make kindness go round and round Doughnuts are the key to one Southern California neighborhood helping out a couple who have served their community for years. ABC7 reports John and Stella Chhan have owned and operated Donut City in Seal Beach for three decades. They bought the shop after they immigrated as refugees from Cambodia. Recently, customers have noticed Mr. Chhan is running the shop by himself. He shared that his wife had suffered an aneurysm. He
Duet Sets The Tone During The Unsettled Times Lucy Rogers and Zac Mayo do not appear to be a political duet made in heaven. And they’re not. They’re running against other for a state House seat in Lamoille County, Vermont. Lucy is a Democrat. Zac is a Republican. They have very different political views, which was quite evident during a recent debate. Interested citizens were expecting that. What they were not expecting is what Rogers and Mayo did at the
US Olympic Gold Medalist David Verburg sprints out into traffic to save tortoise slowly making its way across a busy Florida highway.
October 31, 2018 DarynKagan Businesses Who Rock, Good News, Kindness, Overcoming Obstacles, Uplifting Stories	
October 30, 2018 DarynKagan Animals, Good News, Husband's Crazy Frequent Flyer Mile Hobby, Kindness, Travel, Uplifting Stories	
Elephants are saved from a life of abuse, logging and entertainment It’s not an easy life for elephants in Thailand. Some roam free. The vast majority live horrendous lives, abused, forced to work in the logging industry. Even situations that can look harmless to tourists, like performing elephants, or ones that give rides, are miserable situations for the animals. That’s what makes the Phuket Elephant Sanctuary so special. This is a place where elephants just get to be elephants. My
October 27, 2018 DarynKagan Businesses Who Rock, Food, Good News, Great Giving, Kindness, Uplifting Stories	
When Dalton Shaffer answered the phone at closing time of Steve’s Pizza he knew he had to make a dying man’s wish come true with this special pizza delivery.
What really went down after I dropped off our youngest at college This was not the plan. Not the plan for the plane at all. “How do you think you’ll do?” This question has come from multiple directions all summer long. All in anticipation of what mothers around the world dread. The Empty Nest. I could’ve placed one hand across my heart and the other on a stack of “What to Expect When You’re Expecting” and answered entirely truthfully. “I’m fine. Actually,” I’d
You gotta love firefighters with sense of humor! When Nathan Buhler dropped his Samsung mobile phone in a river in Calgary, Canada, he figured it was gone forever. Time to get a new phone! Not so fast! The Calgary Sun reports weeks after that dreaded drop, two Calgary firefighters fished that phone out of the river. Much to their surprise, when they turned the phone on, it worked. How to find the owner? How do we do everything these days?
Josh Cyganik didn’t know Leonard Bullock very well. He was just the older gentleman who lived across the street from the tracks that Josh was in charge of maintaining in Pendleton, Oregon. But when Josh heard some rude teenagers make fun of the aged paint job on the 75-year-old’s house, he decided to take action. See how his act of kindness rallied a community, brought great joy to a sweet man and showed the world what’s possible. You can