Julia K Cole

Laughter is medicine and science says there are real and tangible benefits associated with laughter.  So if you love laughter and crave comedy, maybe that’s just your body nudging you toward better health. Here's Those 9 Very Real Reasons: 1 .  It’s good for your heart!   One study showed that people who have heart disease tend to laugh less than people who don’t.  They also responded with less humor to normal life situations.  Humor is good for your heart! 2.  Helps fight cancer .  The Cancer Treatment Centers of America actually use laughter  therapy to boost immunity, relieve pain, and improve moods in cancer patients. 3.  Heals relationships .  One of the greatest benefits of laughter is that it brings people closer together.  It can relieve anger and anxiety while restoring positive feelings.  Laughter can break the tension in a  tough moment and pave the way for finding solutions to relation...

The big heart of a Jeffersonville police officer and the generosity of strangers are still making an enormous impact on one man's life. Click here to read the entire story Click here to read how it all started. If you would like to make a donation Just click HERE Merry Christmas Everybody!

Pastor Kevin Cosby.  You're  not going to  find his influence in any of the local Ferguson protests.  But you will find him here in Louisville, Kentucky inspiring and motivating! "I'm not marching over hands up -- don't shoot!' because we're the ones doing the shooting," Cosby shouted in one of his sermons  "But I will march if you change it from 'Hands up -- don't shoot!' to 'Books open -- don't flunk!'"   [emphasis added] Click HERE to Read the Story in it's entirety. Source:   WDRB News Louisville, KY   ' Unless someone like you  cares a whole awful lot,Nothing is going to get better. It's not.'   ~ Dr. Seuss

With all this hatred the media and selected government officials and their chosen spokes bastards keep dishing out, it's always a wonderfully breath of fresh air to hear some good news.  Especially when it involves ordinary citizens and local police. This guy really knows how to Pay It Forward! Tarrant police Officer William Stacy chose to help the woman instead of arresting her because 'sometimes the best route is to not arrest,' he said. Stacy's heartwarming encounter with 47-year-old Helen Johnson was captured on video, going viral as her tale of feeding a family of six on little money has hit home. READ MORE

For every pair of   Cats Galore Ultralite Rain Boots ™   sold, The Animal Rescue Site will donate another pair of shoes through Soles4Souls , a nonprofit organization, giving shoes to needy people both in the U.S. and abroad! How's that for paying it forward! Check out these cute rain boots!  Click HERE

Is Paying  It Forward on your Christmas List this year?   Well, here are just a few ways you can check it off! Volunteer at your local Homeless Shelter.  Serve a hot meal to a neighbor or a stranger. Visit/Volunteer at  a Nursing Home and/or Children's home. Your Local Shelter Is In Need Year Round! Foster, Rescue or Adopt a Pet from your Local Shelter.Shelters are Always looking for donations in the form of money, blankets, cleaning supplies, food, toys.  Volunteer to hold and play with kittens and pups and/or walk a dog. Donate food and/or money to your local food pantry (both human and animals)   Hold the door open for someone Let someone go ahead of you in line! If you ride the public bus, pay the fare for the person behind you (You can also do this at your favorite fast food hang out,  coffee shop, grocers, etc.) Read to the elderly, to children, to the blind, to the home bound! PET FOOD BANK: Donate Food for Needy fam...

Alley Cat Advocates answers hundreds of calls each week and we schedule  over 500 spay and neuter surgeries for community cats each month . Without your help, Alley Cat Advocates can’t provide life-saving care. Alley Cat Advocates spays and neuters community cats. But we do so much more than spay and neuter … we also heal these little bodies and hearts. Your caring contribution allows us to offer life-saving support to the thousands of community cats in our area.   Click HERE to make a gift to Alley Cat Advocates Today for Giving Tuesday!