My friend lost her dad just days after Christmas. I’ve never been in a situation where I needed to console a friend after a parent’s death, so I was on new ground. Am I talking too much or too little?

I got a fun letter over the Christmas break from a college student who was perhaps misidentified. Jared Nash is from Galchutt, N.D., a little community near Wahpeton, where I imagine everybody knows ...

The holiday season often inspires generosity and acts of kindness. A UCLA study found that kindness can improve mental health and may reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer. Research suggests ...

Kindness Rocks U.P. Michigan, a non-profit 501 (c)(3) community charity organization, is launching the new year with a ...

In this installment of "Kindness 101," Steve Hartman and his children highlight a story that proves kindness is contagious, showing how one person's simple act of helping others can inspire countless ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Regarding Leonard Pitts’ subsequently retracted column “Coronavirus reveals depth of our greed and our grace” (March 29): It ...

Hey readers, we think you're great! We wanted to share that kind thought with you because today, November 13, is "World Kindness Day" — created back in 1998 by a consortium of kindhearted charities.

Every day, we encounter people who seem perfectly fine on the surface, smiling, laughing, and exchanging polite words. Yet, behind those masks, many are fightin ...

Medical researchers have found that not only does the recipient of kindness benefit from it, but it also helps to boost the ...

Thursday is World Kindness Day. People celebrate it by performing acts of kindness which can range from something simple like giving a person a parking space, to volunteering, to sending a note or ...