Inspiration Report

In her personal story for RealSimple.com, “I Wrote a Stranger’s Love Letter,” Julianna Baggott shares how she keeps the love alive with her husband: by being open to others and learning their life stories to share with her husband.  She discovers herself connecting on a deeper emotional and social level with different people she meets while…

Are you ready to bring your daughters and sons to work on April 22? And do think Barbie can inspire the new generation of young men and women to have awesome careers? This annual event, according to the website, is meant to “focus on the competing challenges adults face integrating work and family. It is designed…

Katie Couric has a way of making anything sound upbeat and inspirational. Her @KatieCouric page at CBS news is home to one on one wed interviews between Couric and newsmakers. In this interview, she talks with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone about the rise of the popular social-networking service, Twitter. And also about Twitter’s new (controversial) advertising platform. The…

In this video, author Barbara Biziou explains how to celebrate Earth Day 2010 by going outside into nature with friends and helping to make the earth a more beautiful place–pick up litter, plant a garden, beautify your neighborhood or local park. She also guides you in making a vow to do nicer things for the…

High school teens in St. Charles, Missouri put together their annual special needs prom. The special needs prom first began 14 years ago when a sponsor of the high school Renaissance Club had a child with Down syndrome. The prom is still put together by the Renaissance Club, dedicated to doing good things, and invitations are mailed each year to all…

This inspiring video comes to us via Maggie McCauley, ACC LICSW, a life coach who supports people in finding a new view of life and transforming obstacles into miracles. Visit her website, A New View For You. And read her article, How to Attract More Money into Your Life on Beliefnet.

The Volcano in Iceland is creating chaos on so many levels. It has caused a huge international crisis. This photo, reportedly taken on a farm close to the site of the erupting volcano, shows the hauntingly calm beauty of Iceland with a cloud of volcanic ash hovering above. This seems to embrace both the beauty and the…

Happy Pet Owners Day! Pay homage to your cuddly ones with our pet quizzes, photo features, stories and more. Visit our Pets Page. More features for your enjoyment:   1. Read Eckhart Tolle’s animal quotes on “our guardians of being“   2. What do YOU know about dogs and religion? Take our quiz and find…

Jan Shepherd has a powerful blog entry in the Huffington Post this week that will inspire anyone who knows about negative self image and yo-yo dieting. In a post titled “My Relationship with Food: A Reflection of Self,” she talks about how she gave up self-hatred for being fat, got off the dieting treadmill and found inspiration for living a richer life. “Instead of…

The extraordinary thing about Emily Dickinson is that she wrote about 1,800 poems during her lifetime, but only a handful were published.  Almost all of her poems were published posthumously, when they were discovered by her sister, and Dickinson was finally regarded as an innovator who introduced a different way of writing poetry.   Dickinson didn’t conform to traditional…

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