Monty Python 'Silly Walk' Signs Around the World Are Encouraging Pedestrians to Laugh in the Face of COVID

Homeowners from Toronto to Detroit are encouraging passerby to loosen up and laugh by erecting Monty Python-inspired "silly walk" directives.

By Tiffani Spengler

14 May 79 Views

Toddler Pals Living Next Door Can Finally Play Together Again After Crafty Mom Installs Fence Window

A crafty English mom has come up with a brilliant way to reunite her kids with their best pal after she installed a perspex window into their fence.

By Jeanne Goddard

15 May 73 Views

Rival Gangs in Cape Town Agreed to An Unprecedented Truce-and Together Bring Food to the Poor

Since violent crime has fallen by 75% amidst the COVID-19 outbreaks, a recent hunger project uniting 2 South African gangs is being hailed as a "miracle".

By John Hopper

16 May 74 Views

Quarantined City Residents Are Celebrating Ramadan by Decorating Their Homes With Stunning Light Displays

In lieu of going to mosque and eating meals with their loved ones, this Michigan city is using cheerful lights to celebrate the holy month of Ramadan.

By Tiffani Spengler

05 May 82 Views

Opera Singers Have Been Hosting Weekly Concerts in Their Driveway to Bring Neighborhood Together

Leah Edwards and her husband Dimitri Pitta have been using their singing voices to bring joy—and music—to their Mount Pleasant neighbors in quarantine.

By Jeanne Goddard

05 May 78 Views

Readers Have Reported So Many Good Deeds, We Can Barely Keep Up; Here's 10 to Get You Through the Day

These are just 10 of the sweet submissions of good deeds that WS readers have been sending us since the start of the novel coronavirus outbreaks.

By Jeanne Goddard

24 April 73 Views

Mom Has Been Bringing Joy to Neighbors By Drawing Amusing Chalk Cartoons on Her Sidewalk

Casey Drake has been bringing beloved Disney characters to life as a means of cheering up her socially distanced neighbors and quarantined community.

By Tiffani Spengler

16 April 66 Views

Family Cheers Up Neighborhood By Spending 6 Hours Coloring Each Brick of Their House With Rainbow Chalk

Although it took the little English family 6 hours and 40 sticks of jumbo chalk, their brick house has now become a source of cheer for the community.

By Jeanne Goddard

07 April 70 Views

This Diligent Dog Has Been Delivering Groceries, Meals, and Mail to Senior Neighbor in Quarantine

This golden retriever from Manitou Springs, Colorado has been doggedly delivering food and supplies to the door of his 71-year-old neighbor in isolation.

By Tiffani Spengler

02 April 88 Views

How Nasty Note From a Neighbor Inspired a Community to Show the Best in Humanity

Randa Ragland had been going through a rough time when she received a rude note from an anonymous neighbor—but it sparked an outpouring of kindness.

By Tiffani Spengler

18 August 76 Views

Americans Deliver Fishing Boats to Japan on First Anniversary of Tsunami

Family fishermen in Japan took delivery of a very special donation, on the one-year anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that wiped out their local fishing industry. An American humanitarian group donated ten new hand-crafted boats to shrimp and seaweed fishermen in Hikado Harbor who have been out of work since the disaster.

By Jeanne Goddard

11 March 70 Views

A Big Thank-You to Some 'Angel' Neighbors Who Wordlessly Assisted a Helpless Dog In Need

The neighbors appeared silently and wordlessly, as if two angels arriving to bestow some healing kindness on a four-legged being in need.

By Sissie Turner

07 July 71 Views

Musician Uses Truck Bed to Play Drive-By Concerts for Friends in Quarantine - and the Video is Incredibly Heartwarming

Tanner Howe, a singer-songwriter from Huntington Beach, hoped that his performances would brighten up isolating neighborhoods-and he was 100% correct.

By Brad Steusloff

18 April 61 Views

Grandmother and Her Granddaughter Delight Community With Enchanting Fairy House Tours

A grandmother-granddaughter duo in upstate New York has created the perfect self-guided tour for their community: of fairy houses.

By Stacey Gantt

14 September 81 Views

Watch Arizona Woman Frantically Pounding on Door to Save Family From Fire Just Before Roof Collapses

An Arizona woman was determined to save her neighbors from a house fire—and the timely rescue was caught on the family's doorbell camera.

By Jeanne Goddard

17 January 67 Views