Posted by Sometimes watching the news is difficult. This year we’ve seen mass shootings, devastating storms, multiple wars around the world, and more. With all of that, we may need a reminder that we live in a wonderful world filled with loving people. Click the link below to watch Jon Batiste perform “What a Wonderful World” with the National Symphony…Read more »
Posted by Col. Ned Felder and Kris Olsen just met recently, but they’ve been friends for fifty-six years. They’ve been writing each other letters since 1967. Kris was a seventh grader then and sent a care package to a soldier in Vietnam. Col. Felder wrote back, and they’ve been connected ever since. Kris says she now realizes…Read more »
Posted by Santa rides a bike? He does in Milwaukee! LOTS of folks showed up recently to ride bikes in a giant Santa parade. It’s called the Santa Cycle Rampage. It started twenty years ago as a pub crawl, but it’s turned into a fundraising event for safe biking access projects and biking education programs. What a…Read more »
Posted by For 101 years the town of Minden, Nebraska has been lighting up the courthouse with Christmas lights. 101 years! That’s a lot of lights! Since 1946, the celebration includes the “Light of the World” Christmas pageant. Generations have come to look at the lights and feel the joy of the season. Click the link below to learn more about the…Read more »
Posted by It’s Christmastime, so Stories of Joy is bringing you some “extra joy” the next couple of days. For the past 25 years CBS Evening News correspondent Steve Hartman uses his segment “On the Road” to share joy with stories of people doing good things for each other. He says this story of kindness tops them all!…Read more »
Posted by We usually hear pass the potatoes, pass the bread, pass the salt, but what does pass the bricks mean? Pass the Bricks is a great program set up by Charlie Jeffers. Charlie has been building with Lego sets since he was four or five years old. Now he’s a senior in high school and realizes…Read more »
Posted by Mitchell Robinson has made it to the bright lights and big city as the starting center for the New York Knicks, but he hasn’t forgotten where he comes from. When Robinson’s high school coach’s wife was diagnosed with cancer, Robinson frequently visited her at the hospital. At her funeral, Robinson told his former coach that he…Read more »
Posted by 14-year-old Lauren Schroeder was volunteering at a local food bank when she noticed there were not a lot of fresh vegetables. She went home and told her parents that she wanted to start a garden on their farm. So she got to work researching the best vegetables to grow and then tended to them daily. Her first…Read more »
Posted by Get ready for a life-changing, heartwarming story that will bring tears of healing joy. In 2010 war-torn Afghanistan, an unlikely pair of Craig Grossi, a Maine combat veteran suffering with PTSD, and Fred the Afghan, a goofy, loving stray West Asian Village Dog, came together and saved each other’s lives. Click the link below for…Read more »
Posted by Teachers make a huge difference. One teacher at an elementary school in Arizona made an impact in a very short time. After just two months of teaching 6th grade, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and had to resign. Inspired by the book Sadako, the students set a goal of making 1000 paper cranes to…Read more »
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