(This is a reprint of a column I wrote last year, which appeared in my newspaper. It won me first place at the newspaper association contest. Someone on this site came across it online and asked me to reprint it, since it holds my copyright. ALWAYS happy to give props to you emergency/fire service peeps out there.)



" 'They' Are Volunteers and 'They' Answer the Call"

Last week, I was stopped in the grocery store by a woman who wanted me to “write something” for her.

She said… Continue

"Thank you," an elderly woman in a wheelchair said to me today, as I was reaching for her dirty plate at the community Thanksgiving dinner.

I smiled and asked if she needed a refill on her coffee, as I tossed the styrofoam plate into the garbage can I was rolling around the noisy school cafeteria.

She nodded, tears filling her eyes, as her shaking hand held up her stryofoam cup to me.

I took the cup to the coffee urn and filled it, then carried it back to her, nodding at my… Continue