Look at those cute little battery chargers, nested together like sleeping birdies…Yes, this means that we just received our new digital cameras! As we all know, a picture is worth […]

Success! Volunteering is fun. My volunteer team ended up moving a whole heck of a lot of tiles from one area to another in the Rebuilding Center warehouse. One of […]

Tomorrow is our annual Day of Sharing. This means we all pick a local non-profit and go volunteer there. Most people are volunteering at one of these sites; Transition Projects […]

There’s a common myth that people who have recently been tattooed can’t donate blood. (Even I thought it was true!) Well that’s not necessarily true, and our folks in Blood […]

I love stories so I’m happy to see that Redcross.org (the national site) has started posting little vignettes about Red Cross folks (volunteers, donors, etc.). For example: Patti Shannon, Hawaii […]

I’m going to pack, an Apple, a Beret, a Cello… Did you ever play that game? Each person takes a turn adding another item with the next letter of the […]

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 […]

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 […]

…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 […]

…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.)