Posted by April DiDonna, a Wendy’s restaurant manager in Oak Harbor, Washington decided the world needs a little more love. So a few months ago she started saying “I love you” to customers. The result of her kind offering is heartwarming. April has taken three simple words and made them shine in a world that needs to…Read more »
Posted by Stacy Milrany came up with a creative way to spark joy by loving her Seattle neighbors through art. She shares her gift of art with FLAG, the free little art gallery. Her “little” art projects started with an effort to help her mother, but it’s grown way beyond that now. Click the link below to watch…Read more »
Posted by One of the Super Bowl ads during last week’s game may have caught your eye. It showed Jessica Long “swimming” through her life. From orphanage to adoption to pool. Jessica is a paralympic swimmer who loves competing in the pool. In today’s Story of Joy, she talks about watching the ad and why she loves…Read more »
Posted by Ben Berman found a way to brighten people’s day and serve those in need, and he’s doing it with PIZZA! We know . . . pizza has that power. Last spring the pandemic disrupted a gathering of Ben and his friends, so he started making pizza and lowering it down from his apartment window to…Read more »
Posted by Thanks to the determination of Katalin Kariko, many will receive a vaccine for COVID-19. Many of these vaccines use Messenger RNA. Ms. Kariko always believed in the potential of mRNA, but she hit many roadblocks along the way as she studied and experimented and studied and experimented some more. It’s a scientific breakthrough, and it’ll save millions…Read more »
Posted by In the middle of March our lives changed in so many ways overnight. Our jobs, our school, our interactions were vastly different in the blink of an eye. Even the way we enjoyed our hobbies changed in dramatic ways. Today’s Story of Joy exemplifies that change when the book club goes from getting together to…Read more »
Posted by Finding energy, engagement, and a sense of calm can be difficult for people undergoing treatment in a hospital. Boston Hope Music has developed a platform that consists of 30-minute “musical dosages” for patients to use while they’re undergoing treatment. Local musicians put the pieces together as a gift during the pandemic. Then the project moved to…Read more »
Posted by Tuesday is Distribution Day in Mesa County Colorado. The long, long line shows the great, great need. People come for food, coats, toilet paper, face masks. They come for much more than life’s basics. They come for comfort, for happiness, for hope. Today’s Story of Joy shows us what folks can do for each other…Read more »
Posted by It all started in a book club. Students from Palma School have been attending a book club at Soledad State Prison for several years. The discussions about characters and plots and choices have taught the participants about empathy and compassion and giving. Today’s Story of Joy is about lives transformed not just through reading .…Read more »
Posted by Today’s Story of Joy came our way last month at Christmastime, and we didn’t want you to miss it. Fostering and adopting a child is no easy undertaking, however, the Kolas family has taken on fostering six. You read that right, six. They now have eight children between the ages of eight and twenty. You read…Read more »
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