At 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who never married and had no children, was walking through a park one day in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying because she had lost her favourite doll. She and Kafka searched for the doll unsuccessfully. Kafka told her to meet him there the next day and […]

“Kindness isn’t gone — it’s just quiet. Wanted to give a huge shout-out to this girl (whoever she is). We were in Wrigleyville on the rooftop of Old Crow Smokehouse when I noticed a blind Cubs fan trying to hail a cab… for several minutes. People walked by. Some glanced, most didn’t. Until she walked […]

“Someday our faces will be lined with age and our hair faded gray. Yet I picture us on the porch, his hand wrapped in mine, watching our grandkids running through the yard.” (Link Below)

In March 1945, 22-year-old Ensign Jane Louise “Candy” Kendeigh, a Navy flight nurse from Ohio, made history as the first U.S. Navy nurse to land on an active Pacific battlefield during World War II. Born on March 30, 1922, in Henrietta Township, Jane graduated from nursing school in Cleveland before joining the Navy’s School of […]