Google Engineering Week Volunteers, River North, Chicago
On Thursday Google celebrated Engineering Week in all of our offices by inviting school kids to visit for the day. In Chicago we hosted 4th - 7th graders from a school on the South Side. The kids selected were part of a group who is interested in computers and [...]

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Back when I lived in New York, I used to volunteer with New York Cares. I mostly walked dogs at BARC in Wiliamsburg.
Since I moved to Chicago I haven’t really done any volunteering at all, but I’ve thought about it. A few weeks ago Erin contacted me because she was trying to get a bunch [...]

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Artist, Washington Blue Line Stop, Chicago
Tuesday night I let the homeless (I assume?) wheelchair-bound artist in the Washington Blue Line platform draw my portrait. I was bundled up, wearing a scarf and had just gotten done at the gym. I think it looks only vaguely like me. In his defense, I was looking down at [...]

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Handing Out Water at Checkpoint #2, AIDS Walk, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Yesterday, Jeannette, Masako, and I participated in AIDS Walk New York. The 10k walk didn’t seem as long as I thought it would, maybe because all along the route there were volunteers enthusiastically urging you on and thanking you for walking. Or because there [...]

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On Sunday, I’m participating in the 18th annual AIDS Walk New York, a 10k walk that benefits people living with HIV or AIDS. Last year over 42,000 people participated raising over $4.7 million and making this the world’s largest AIDS fundraising event. Personally, I don’t know anyone affected by HIV or AIDS, but you never [...]

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