by Rick | Jan 29, 2014 | Blog
The term hunger space is used to describe the intersection of governments, nonprofits, companies, educational institutions, religious groups, civic organizations, and individuals engaged in the fight against global hunger. Sometimes they work together; sometimes they...
by Rick | Jan 23, 2014 | Blog
Getting five, 40-foot container loads of meals from the US to the Philippines is not an easy task, specially when you consider the fact that those meals were packaged by volunteers at Outreach Meal Packaging Events from New York to California. Gathering 120 pallets...
by Rick | Jan 16, 2014 | Blog
Grammar Nazi is a phrase that refers a person who understands the difference between a colon and a semicolon. They hyperventilate in the “12 items or less” checkout line and tell the cashier it should read, “12 items or fewer.” They know when to start paragraphs and...
by Rick | Jan 9, 2014 | Blog, Photographic Travel Journal
Waiting on a herd of cows to get out of the road in the rural hillsides of Nicaragua is like waiting on a teenage girl to get out of the bathroom in the morning. You can bang, yell, threaten, and bribe and they don’t move until their darn-good-and-ready. In fact, I’d...
by Rick | Jan 5, 2014 | Blog
I have a Batman sticker about the size of a quarter on my shirt. Placed there by my three-year-old grandson, Evan, I’m very reluctant to take it off because of how serious he was when he put it on. Giving up a Batman sticker to Papa Rick came with both great...