“I need a small crew tomorrow to bottle up our latest batch from morning until 3pm. Let me know if you can make it.” For four years I’ve received similarly-worded emails from Saint Somewhere Brewing followed by personal frustration. I knew I had to work the next day, or I’d be in a not-so-near location….
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GIVING BACK TO TALLAHASSEE
We’d eaten, we’d drunk, we’d skipped like tree elves flitting through the trees. Alas, all vacations must come to an end; even vacations relatively close to home. Remember, a big storm had overturned Tallahassee a day before our arrival. Even as we raided multiple Tallahassee hot spots, the storm’s destruction was present at every turn….
TIME FOR FEEDING AMERICA
If you’ve ever thought about volunteering at Feeding America Tampa’s warehouse– this is what you should expect. Start stretching your shoulders now. “Make way! Here’s more!” I heaved more than a dozen boxes of pre-made Brownie Mix and raced to another container filled with soup cans. The date! Where was the expiration date?! More boxes…
MY HELPING HANDS WEIGHED
“They tricked me into going to school,” Thomas the energetic speaker from Ghana laughed while indicating the nearby CRS members. “I only wanted the food but I had to go to class to get it. So they tricked me.” Then his big smile flashed brighter, “And now I work with them tricking other children into…
