Day 649: Chain reaction good deeds

I was on the elevator this morning, and when the doors opened on a floor before mine, the woman getting on gave me a big warm smile … huge! … like I was a long-lost relative, or something. At first, I thought maybe she recognized me from the building but then I noticed she smiled […]

Day 515: Strangeness on a train

A young man approached me on the subway today holding a paper attached to a clipboard. At the top of the paper was a logo for an Ajax basketball team and he had a list of sponsors handwritten on the form below. He held out a pen and explained that his high school basketball team […]

Day 326: Improv everywhere

The everyday heroes I spotlight are usually individuals, but today I’d like to give a virtual high-five to the urban prankster group Improv Everywhere. Here’s why: This “prank” brightened the day of its subjects, all the people participating and the random travellers at the airport. How cool is that? According to their website the group […]

Day 295: Good search deeds

You might call what I did today, “good deed googling.” Believe it or not, at the http://www.goodsearch.com website, you can donate to charity just by searching the Internet. I know, sounds too good to be true. Here’s the blurb from their site: “ Just start using Yahoo! powered GoodSearch.com as your search engine and we’ll […]

Day 243: Bundle of joy

Why do we get so emotionally attached to our stuff? It’s just stuff, after all. But emotional we get, I do anyway, when it comes time to part with any of it. Today, I tried to select a few items to donate to the Saint Vincent de Paul “Bundle Sunday” coming up on the weekend […]