Meet WaterBOB

A new disaster product, the Water Bathtub Oblong Bladder, or WaterBOB™ for short, was just released. Oh man, that came out sounding weird about releasing bladders… Um, what I meant […]

Tea Time

Our COO, Gareth, is from England, and for his birthday a few of the folks here threw him a surprise tea party in the conference room. It was, again, the […]

Meetings are fun

…when you’re a member of the American Red Cross Youth Council! Just now I was just working late, holed up like a hermit in my office, when I heard giggling […]

Blood. It’s not funnnnyyyyyy…

…or maybe sometimes it is. This kid obviously knows blood is quite important. (P.S. Don’t worry. Apparently it was only a minor cut, and the mom took care of it.)

Blood and History

Oh man, isn’t this the best poster ever? Totally trippy. But on a more serious note, we do actually need blood pretty urgently right now. They’ve been sending out all-staff […]

A Thousand Words

This morning in the all-staff meeting I gave a presentation on how to take good photos. Then we played a game I call Alright! or Not Quite. I would show […]

Pictures of Peace

More from the Hands of Peace event last weekend… Check out the rest on our Flickr page.

Hands of Peace

Remember the Hands of Peace event I blogged about on Friday? Well, it was a big success. The Daily Astorian called it “a lively, heartfelt commemoration of the life of […]

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

The Chapter will be closed on Monday in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. But according to my ever-eloquent supervisor, “While the Chapter will be closed in honor of […]

Happy Birthday Bert!

Happy Birthday to Bert Kile, our Chief Programs and Services Officer. This afternoon the whole staff gathered in the conference room to surprise him. Our CEO tricked him into coming […]