Gosh! Where do I start? This is the kind of story that makes my eyes water, inspire me to keep making bracelets for the orphanage and obligates me to stop what I’m doing to write and try to get what’s in my heart out! But I’m not great with words, writing has NEVER been my forte but thank God for real writers and reporters such as Kevin Cullen of The Boston Globe that can craft such a lovely piece. The story is about Sam Kanji a now 13-year old autistic boy who last year want

Giving and being kind is a learned behavior, something you CHOOSE to learn, like tying your shoes! This means that the MORE you do it, the easier it gets and greater are the chances of others picking up this behavior and doing good too. Gosh, we humans are cool! No other creature in this earth has the ability and power to CHOOSE to do good. To help you get started, here are 20 small acts that can make someone's day: Put the shopping cart back in place. Yeah, you know you’ve

The HuffPost recently posted an article and absolutely loved it! Jon Bon Jovi opened a new restaurant. Yeah, yeah, yeah, just another celebrity owned restaurant you might think but this one is different and worth mentioning. It’s called The Soul Kitchen, a “pay-what-you-can” restaurant he and his wife Dorothea established in a former auto body shop near the Red Bank train station in central New Jersey. The restaurant provides gourmet-quality meals to the hungry while enabling

What’s the scariest monster you can think of? How about the greedy little goblins and goblets running around your house during Halloween fighting over candy and yelling “mommy, that’s mine”! at the top of their lungs. That’s a sight that most parents don’t want to see and must correct while they are still young, before they grow into scarier and maybe even a danger-to-society young devils. Here are a few ways you can teach the lil monsters at home about sharing, caring and p

Orphan. When most people think about an orphan child the first thing that comes to mind is a child with no parents, with no one to love them. The definition of an orphan has changed over the years to include children that even though their parents are alive, they are not and will not be fit parents and it is best for those children to be raised by others. An orphan can also be a child that has been abandoned because their parents can’t provide for them due to extreme poverty.

One of my favorite people in the whole world is my grandma, she says the darnedest things. Whenever she comes to visit from Nicaragua, I love talking to her about old wives tales which to her are just words of advice and beliefs that have been passed down from older generations. In honor of all abuelitas, here are some old wives tales we grew up with: Don’t watch tv too closely or you’ll go blind- I heard this every day as a kid. Hiccups are cured by putting a string on your

I had been sad for several days. I was crying over anything, everything bugged me and I didn’t know why. After seeking God in prayer and aware I wasn’t PMS-ing, I resorted toGoogle, because there’s nothing Google can’t answer, right? Turns out I might have been been experiencing post-event blues. An article from A Mom Knows Best helped shine some light to what I was feeling. Post event blues is that period of time after a major event where all the adrenaline washes away and

January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month and January 11th is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. We couldn’t have started 2013 in a better way, empowering you to stand up for those who can’t defend themselves. The United Nations estimates that 700,000 to 4 million women and children are trafficked around the world for purposes of forced prostitution, labor and other forms of exploitation every year. An estimated $7 billion dollar annual busines

According to Forbes.com these are the 14 things successful people do (or should be doing) on weekends: 1. Make time for family and friends. This is especially important for those who don’t spend much time with their loved ones during the week. 2. Exercise. Everyone needs to do it, and if you can’t work out 4 to 5 days during the workweek, you need to be active on weekends to make up for some of that time because it’s the perfect opportunity to clear you mind and create fresh

Did you know that almost all kids are infected with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) at least once by the time they’re 2 years old? And that RSV infections often occur in epidemics that last from late fall through early spring? RSV usually lasts about a week, but some cases may last several weeks, it causes infection of the lungs and breathing passages and is a major cause of respiratory illness in young children such as bronchitis and pneumonia. The challenge with preventin