Today, my younger sister who always wears makeup (too much I think), showed up to the house after school without any makeup on. When I asked her why, she said, “This morning Kayla (our youngest sibling) said she wanted to put on makeup to be beautiful like me. I don’t want her thinking that she has to wear makeup to be beautiful, so I’m gonna start wearing less of it.” MMT

Today, after a decade-long, physically abusive marriage, and 3 years of therapy, he proved to me that true love isn’t a lie. We have been happily married for 20 years now. MMT

Today, 26 years after her passing, my wife is still the last person I think about before I fall asleep each night, and often the first person I think about when I wake up. MMT

Today, I’m overseas on business travel that has kept me away from my family for almost four straight months. All I want to do is go home, but last night my wife admitted to cheating on me after a friend emailed me about seeing her with another man. And now I’m sitting here at the airport, and I'm not sure where home is anymore. MMT

Today, as she sat there on the couch at two o’clock in the afternoon, drunk again, I realized that when my dad died last year, I lost my mom too. MMT

Today, my mom and our two dogs were found alive and relatively unharmed, stuck under debriefs from a neighbor’s house, nearly 12 hours after a tornado leveled our entire community. MMT

Today, my little brother is still missing after a massive tornado tore through our neighborhood in Oklahoma City. MMT

Today my Yorkshire Terrier is two months shy of his 20th birthday (rather amazing). When I adopted him 10 years ago, directly from the negligent neighbors who had locked him in their backyard, a veterinarian told me that he was so unwell with kidney failure and other problems that he only had a month, at the outside, to live. I loved him and he loved me back... I don't know which love saved him, but he's going strong. His obvious joy, each and every day, MMT.

Today, in my college sociology class of about 150 students, the professor asked us to raise our hand if our parents were still together, and only about a third of the class raised their hands. I was one of the ones who didn’t. MMT

Today, as he sat there smiling at me across my kitchen table, I wished I was prettier, so he would see me as more than just his best friend since kindergarten. And then, out often left field, he leaned forward and kissed me on the lips. MMT

Today was the day my dad was supposed to return home from Afghanistan, but I’ve known he wasn’t coming home for almost a year now. MMT

Today, a month after she was admitted into a psychiatric hospital, I read my daughter’s journal. On several pages she states that her “mom” (me) is her only hope left in the world, and that she’s holding on just to make sure I don’t have another reason to cry. MMT

Today, my longtime next door neighbor, one of the nicest guys I know, is in prison serving 15 years for assaulting and nearly killing the drunk driver that killed his wife, at the scene of the accident. MMT

Today, at her wake her little brother read her final post on Twitter: “I wish the bullies who always laugh at me could see the world through my eyes for just one lonely day.” MMT

Today, when I didn’t show up for my AA meeting, 11 of my friends in the group independently called me to make sure I was OK. I was just feeling ill, but their love and support MMT.

Today I learned about MMT and I cried as I read the stories. I have been depressed for a while now and often consider suicide. No one knows how bad things really are. The stories here inspired me to do something good for a stranger today. I'm honestly feeling better than I have in awhile, and tomorrow I will help someone else. This could be the therapy I needed. MMT

Today, I met a man with two prosthetic arms from the elbow down climbing proficiently at a local rock climbing gym. MMT

Today, my order at a local deli was messed up, and as the deli chef prepared a new sandwich for me, we had a pleasant conversation about business and funny customer issues. When he handed me my new sandwich, I handed him my cash. He refused it. “Listen, I messed your order up and you still said, ‘please and thank you’ and you were far more cordial than most of the people I interact with all day. Your meal is on me.” MMT

Today, I spread my wife’s ashes on a secluded beach in Fiji. I traveled here alone on pre-paid airline and resort tickets that my wife and I bought three months ago before her accident. The trip was booked in celebration our 25th wedding anniversary, because Fiji is where we got engaged 26 years ago. MMT

Today, I was walking past four homeless men who sleep near my apartment building. A limo pulled up next to the men and the driver opened up the rear door and someone inside handed him four bags full of groceries. The driver then walked over to the homeless men and handed each one of them a bag and said, “Eat well friends,” and then got in the limo and drove off. MMT