I started delivering food to people for a south side pantry here in Big Shoulders a little over a year and a half ago, and they liked me well enough to ask whether I wanted to join the board. I turned that down. I don't want to work in offices with meetings and strategies and making fundraising phone calls and stuff like that. I want to see the people, bring them food, exchange smiles and jokes and bon mots. That's the soul of volunteering. Let someone else do the administration part.