Grab Bag Blog

As 2023 was approaching I thought to myself "what was my good?" As the owner of a kindness project I wasn't sure if after 2 years I had anything major to report on this. When I started this a couple years ago, I was really hoping to make a significant donation to the...

Yes, I know it's spelled granted usually in this context. However, this friend of mine has a granite company. I have known BD since childhood and I can say the person I knew many years ago has not been changed by his success. It has allowed him the opportunity to make...

I BELIEVE I DID GOOD THE OTHER DAY..... I SAW A SITUATION AND JUMPED TO ACTION WITH ALL THE BEST INTENTIONS. I DID NOT THINK ABOUT MYSELF OR THE DANGER I PUT MYSELF IN. Walking out from an outdoor concert venue, I witnessed a man verbally abusing his significant other...

This is a powerful story of love like I have not seen in a long time....maybe not ever outside of a Hollywood movie. It is love between a married couple combined with the love they have for those in their lives. They are the epitome of what I envisioned when I thought...

We all know how difficult those shopping carts can be when we are trying to separate them from each other! I walked into my neighborhood big box store and noticed a couple people having issues getting the carts apart. One was a gentleman and the other was a woman with...

I met an unassuming gentleman yesterday and the more we spoke the more I realized he was a very special person. It took a couple hours of conversation and my blood donation story for him to divulge that he has donated bone marrow twice. Once, for his father and once...