
It just doesn’t get much easier than this- two wonderful people, two great places (and one not so great place)… good times with two of my small group friends.

The Red Cross offers assistance after disasters like the tornado in Butler, and almost all of that assistance is provided through volunteer caseworkers deployed into affected communities. Above you see photos from Deer Park, Alabama. The same storm system that produced tornadoes in Butler also devastated Deer Park in south Washington County. As an AmeriCorps...

I was in Denver, Colorado from April 12-15th for AmeriCorps Pre-Service Orientation (although I’d been in service at the Red Cross for over two months by then). Storms passed through Colorado and Oklahoma while I was in Denver, with a rush of wind fanning the flames of Texas wildfires the Friday I left to come...