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Category Archives: Bullying
The Day My Beloved Got Me Fired
(A re-post for newer friends of this blog.) Back in 1980, several months after we got married, my Beloved got me fired. It all began when I had to take time off from work due to the simultaneous removal of … Continue reading →
Posted in Anger, Bullying, Choices, Illness, LIfe Lessons, True Stories I've Written
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Tagged angry, beloved, boss, fired, job, phone, quit, swear, telephone, wife, wisdom, wisdom teeth
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The Day Girls Saved Me
(Some of you may have seen this story on my blog before, but I sometimes re-post an earlier story to give newer friends a chance to learn more about some of the goofier messes I got myself into.) Many years … Continue reading →
Posted in Anger, Bullying, Challenges, Friendship, True Stories I've Written
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Tagged Anger, boys, bullies, friends, girls, high school, JROTC, lockers, pounded, rage, retired, trouble, U.S. Marine Corps, uniform, USMC
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Whitney Krop’s Big Night
As most of you know, I love a happy ending. Awhile back I posted about a high school girl who had been voted onto her high school’s homecoming court but found out it had all been a big prank and … Continue reading →
Posted in Bullying, Compassion, Courage, Stories That Touched Me, Uncategorized
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Tagged bullies, bully, bullying, Cadillac, game, High, homecoming, prank, pranked, School, support, suppoters, Whitney Krop
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Town Rallies Around Girl Pranked For Homecoming
A cruel hoax nearly drove a girl to suicide, but her life was saved when her town rallied around her. When bullies at her her high school voted her onto the Homecoming elite (I forget the word used in the … Continue reading →
Posted in Bullying, Generosity, Kindness, Making the World a Better Place, Stories That Touched Me
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Tagged bullies, bully, bullying, cruel hoax, generosity, kiindness, kind, Michigan, Ogemaw, Ogemaw Heights High School, suicide, West Branch
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$700,000 Happy Ending For Bullied Bus Monitor
A Canadian man who thought he’d be able to raise $5,000 to send on vacation a 68 year old woman who had been bullied by students while doing her job as a bus monitor has actually raised over $700,000. A … Continue reading →
Posted in Bullying, Generosity, Inspiring
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Tagged $700K, Bullied bus monitor, Canada, Canadian, students, suspended
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22 Comments
I Love Happy Endings
Remember that bullied bus monitor? People from around the world have donated $700,000 to her to send a message that they’ve had enough of bullies and that most people aren’t bullies. Here’s a URL or link to a beautiful story … Continue reading →
The Day My Beloved Got Me Fired
(A re-post from 2010 to share with newer readers) Back in 1980, several months after we got married, my Beloved got me fired. It all began when I had to take time off from work due to the simultaneous removal … Continue reading →
Posted in Bullying, Choices, Family "Fun", Growth/Learning, Humor, LIfe Lessons, True Stories I've Written
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Tagged beloved, boss, fired, flu, ill, job, police, sick, teletphone, wife, wisdom teeth
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6 Comments
Two More Bullying Stories
When I was 15-1/2 I used to walk or ride my bicycle to work at a large buffet restaurant. One day as I neared the back door of the restaurant a bully started taunting me and yelled that he was … Continue reading →
Posted in Bullying, Courage, Parenting, True Stories I've Written
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Tagged buddies, bullied, bullies, bully, dad, father, firends, Gary Cooper, High Noon, junior high school, lesson, marshal, middle school, punch, School, thugs
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Bullies
I’m glad to see that there are several major initiatives to end bullying. I believe in some years it may be responsible for more deaths than war. I was bullied as a kid. I think most kids were. I was … Continue reading →
Posted in Bullying, Courage, True Stories I've Written
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Tagged buddies, buddy, bullied, bullies, bully, bullying, cadet, cadets, courage, hisg school, liquid courage, Marines, pal, pals, ROTC, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Marines
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Making A Difference
I will sometimes re-post something for readers who found this site in recent months. Below is one such re-post. Russ Remember the hit song from awhile back that included these words?: Don’t Laugh At Me Don’t call me names Don’t … Continue reading →
Posted in Bullying, Courage, Healing, LIfe Lessons, Making the World a Better Place, Random Thoughts, Vids & Stories That Touched Me
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Tagged #1 hit songs, #1 hits, admire, Arabic, beautiful, bullies, bully, bullying, English, eyes, faculty, God, God's, God's eyes, heart, Hebrew, hit, Hope, indifference, Japanese, kind, kindness, laugh, like, Love, music, pain, parents, perfect, perfect wings, Pleasure, positive difference, respect, School, schools, Serbian, song, songwriter, spirit, Steve Seskin, students, successful, wings, working together, world
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