Today, while I was driving my grandmother back from her doctor's appointment, I complained about all the traffic we were hitting. My grandmother smiled and said, "Dear, you complain about the little bit of traffic we are sitting in now, but on the way to the appointment at 4:30PM, you didn’t celebrate the fact that we hit every green light, which we did, and almost no traffic at all." MMT

Today, as I was sitting in the emergency room waiting area crying with my 4-year-old son, an hour after being told that my wife’s internal bleeding could not be stopped, a little girl no older than 7, walked up to us and handed us a little flowers she had picked outside. She said, “My dad isn’t doing well either, but my mom says we have to keep smiling for each other.” MMT

Today, I’m the friend with a strong smile who everyone comes to when they need some reassurance and a shoulder to cry on. But I’m still waiting for one of them to look beyond my forced smile and ask me, “How are you doing?” MMT

Today, my father had a heart attack just after my mom took her last breath at the hospital. Now I’m here hoping he’ll make a full recovery. MMT

Today, the flower I gave him in the 1st grade in 1952 is dried and in a frame he keeps over his desk in his office. MMT

Today, my wife who suffered from a major head trauma in a car accident back in December of 2011, finally got some of her long term memory back and can suddenly recall the details of the night we met in the summer of 1999, even though she still struggles to remember her own name sometimes. MMT

Today, I found out that my 64-year-old employee’s wife passed away over a decade ago. This took me by surprise because he talks about her on a regular basis, and until now he had never mentioned that she was deceased. When he mentioned it, I said, “Oh, I’m sorry. I didn’t realize she had passed away.” He said, “Oh, I don’t talk about her death often. I prefer to talk about the beautiful way she lived.” MMT

Today, a teenager knocked on our front door and returned my 74-year-old mother in-law’s wallet completely intact that she had lost at the mall, including the $380 in cash she had in it. My mother in-law was so appreciative, she gave the teenager $200 as a reward. Later this evening our doorbell rang and it was a flower delivery service with a dozen roses for my mother in-law. The card read, “On your ID I noticed it was your birthday yesterday. Happy belated birthday!” MMT

Today, I miss him. I miss him like I do every other day. I look at pictures and replay memories in my mind. I never thought I'd have to miss him and everything we had like this. It never crossed my mind. The fact that I never told him how much I loved him when I had the chance MMT.

Today, as my younger brother sat with my mom in her hospice bed (she is dying from breast cancer) my mom noticed that my brother was rubbing his cheek every time she kissed his cheek. She asked him, “Why are you wiping off my kisses?” He said, “I’m not! I’m rubbing them in so I can keep them with me after you go to heaven.” MMT

Today, on vacation in Florida, a bum approached me while I stood outside my hotel room door. I was honestly scared of what he might do, so I went inside and shut the door in his face. A while later, there was ambulance outside. He had knocked on the next to mine for help; it turned out he was suffering from seizures and needed someone to call 911. MMT

Today, on the back page of my son's school notebook, I found a note that said, "I wish they would stop calling me a gay, teacher's pet. I wish they would stop making fun of me every day." My son is in 4th grade and has never mentioned a thing to me. MMT

Today, I'm a swimsuit fashion model for a several major department stores. My photos are used in online promotions and paper ads in Sunday newspapers. But after the digital artists are done air brushing my photos, my friends and family don't even recognize my photos sometimes, and neither do I. MMT

Today, in Cambodia, three young boys who were starving to death when I arrived here last year for a 12-month humanitarian effort just received a clean bill of health from our staff doctor. They each put on roughly 40 pounds of weight. MMT

Today, my dad sells pot legally to medical dispensaries to make ends meet after California budget cuts reduced his teacher’s salary by 25% last year. MMT

Today, when I told my classmate that I hate my dad, she looked down with a blank stare and said, “I wish I could meet mine.” MMT

Today, a fire broke out in the nursing home where I work. One of the male nurses carried 5 elderly men and women one at a time to safety all by himself through a smoke filled hallway while several other hospital staff members, including myself, panicked and waited for the fire department to arrive. MMT

Today, when I gave a homeless man my leftover half of a Subway sandwich, he ripped the half in half and gave a quarter to his dog. MMT

Today, I didn’t believe in miracles until my 19-year-old son who was diagnosed as ‘paralyzed’ from a car accident last year took his first unassisted steps around the rehab clinic with a huge smile on his face. MMT

Today, the kid that’s been bullying me since the school year started finally resorted to physical violence when I called him “a coward who’s all talk” this afternoon. He pushed me against a wall and hit me three times, giving me a black eye and a bloody nose. This evening, according to the 6PM news, he took his own life by hanging himself in his parent’s garage. MMT