Tag: kindness

Preferential Treatment

The administrator of a large mental health clinic once described what he called the BYMF factor. A BYMF is a Beautiful Young Male or Female. This administrator noted that whenever an attractive-looking young adult entered the clinic, the receptionist immediately gave that person attention and was more detailed than usual in giving directions. In the […]

Stronger Than Death

The romantic words of a husband to his wife were carefully written in pencil on the back of a mail-worn postcard.  With thousands of other notes and letters like it, the postcard arrived at an Ohio post office, a minuscule part of a routine shipment from the U.S. Postal Service distribution center in Toledo.  But […]