Pennies

I’m not above preying upon a 3rd grader’s spelling deficiency. I’ve let far too many potentially hilarious situations slip through my fingers without letting them see the light of day. Must have been my conscience…hmmm…. In any case, my brother and I regularly volunteer to “review” my mom’s corrected papers – for the sole reason of finding something as hilarious as this:

Stupid kid. She forgot to capitalize the first word in her sentence.

Random Acts of Kindness

I was on my lender page for Kiva.org and was looking at some of the amazing folks around the world I’ve been able to have contact with. The six I’ve loaned to so far range from Cambodia to Kenya and are truly working for better lives for themselves. It’s just amazing to me that through micro-loaning, in increments as low as $25, you can really change someone’s life. I’m not exactly raking in loads of cash, but $25 really isn’t that much money – and yet, it’s helping someone else a world away tenfold of what it would have helped me. It just started me thinking on random acts of kindness and whatnot, and how such little things can really change the world…

As an aside, this was what I saw on my New Yorker desk calendar this morning:

Published in The New Yorker May 15, 2006. Copyright Pat Byrnes.

It made me laugh. Oh, New Yorker, you and your comedy…what will we do with you?