I've mentioned a time or three that I voulenteer every Thursday evening at a homeless shelter in Vancouver. This is a place, where, unsurprisingly, emotions run pretty strong; you get a lot of people who have personality disorders showing up, and just as many people who honestly have nothing wrong with them but a run of bad luck and are having a ( Read more... )

Last week, Ray and I went (as is our wont) to Out of the Cold, that homeless-shelter-at-a-church thing I've been talking about. As we arrived, there was an elderly gentleman who we'd never seen there before (which is not uncommon; voulenteers come and go pretty frequently), who could perhaps best be described as "swishy." I don't use the word as a ( Read more... )

So, remember a little over a month ago, I was talkng about going back to voulenteering at a homeless shelter up in Vancouver on Thursday nights? Well, it has for the most part been going swimmingly, though it has not been entirely without some small bumps ( Read more... )

Hey, all. Or, more particularly, all in and around Vancouver (of which I know there are a few).

A few years ago, I got roped into voulenteering at a homeless shelter up in Vancouver; a program called "Out of the Cold." It was run out of the Grandview Calvary Baptist Church, and this was, for certain (and I think obvious) reasons a little ( Read more... )