Good Causes

An inspiring letter – Please read

This morning I was going through my email and I couldn't find what I was looking for so I checked out my junk mail and I found this letter by accident. When I read it I was stunned and couldn't imagine this being real. This woman's kindness shocked me to the core. For years she'd been helping save lives by donating blood, giving other people a chance to have warm, clean clothes and she didn't think that she was doing much. To the people that she helped, she is an angel and to me, she is an inspiration. Thank you, Natasha… Read More

Had to share this.

This is a Dear Abby article from today's paper. The smallest acts make the biggest difference........

"ACT OF SUPERMARKET KINDNESS TOUCHES CASHIER AND CUSTOMERS

05/27/2012

Share: DEAR ABBY: From time to time you print letters about acts of kindness, and I'd like to relate one I witnessed: I was working as a cashier in a grocery store. An elderly woman came through my line with about 10 items in her basket, including some strawberries and shortcakes. Making small talk, I commented on how nice the berries looked. She agreed, and informed me that they were a little treat for herself. She said she… Read More

Pay it 4ward Friday ;)

Tomorrow is May 12th, which means that the largest nationwide attempt to feed the hungry is taking place. I've got two bags full of nonperishable food ready to go for my mailman, how about you? Can you help? Stamp Out Hunger: https://www.helpstampouthunger.com/     "1 in 6 Americans are facing hunger." "Nearly 49 million Americans are facing hunger. 16 million of them are… Read More

Pay it 4ward Friday

Today I'm going to finish gathering old clothes to donate and tomorrow I'm going to drop them off at the donation box. I'd like to get it done today, but I'm going to be stuck inside most of the day finishing this book. I'm going to create a page for charities, if you know a noteworthy, LEGITIMATE charity please post here today. I will check it out and place it on the page sometime this week. If you post a charity that is urgent, i.e. a fundraiser for a child or something of that nature please let me know. This… Read More

Payit4ward Friday

Today is Pay4ward Friday & we're going to get a little serious here for a second. A situation has come to light with a dear friend. I'm not going into details here, but I am just going to say this, if you know a woman who is in a bad situation, a controlling situation or you suspect that she is being hurt, please don't hesitate to help her or at the very least talk to her. If anyone out there has advice of a phone number for any woman in need of help or someone to listen to them,… Read More

R.L. Mathewson’s Trick to handle scams :)

I posted this on my Facebook Page, but I thought I'd share my wonderful experience with a scam call:   So, I was sitting in the car waiting for my daughter to come home a while ago when the scam for 6.7% called (A company calling and trying to get information by promising really low rates). Since I had nothing better to do I decided to have some fun :) When I was prompted to press 1, I decided that it just might be fun. Now this is how the phone call went down: (Mind you, I used a sarcastic tone the entire… Read More