#pieitforward

MISO CARAMEL PEAR PIE | PIE IT FORWARD.

Have you ever been inside your local fire station? Up until yesterday, I hadn't. I drive by it literally every day (it’s at the end of my block), I walk by it several times a week. I do clothing charity drops there a few times a year. And yet, somehow, I’ve always been intimidated to set foot inside the station, to actually say hello to the humans who make living in my community safe.

Until yesterday, that is, when I marched a pie over to Los Angeles Fire Department Station Number 41. And I have to say, it felt really dang good. I've spent a lot of the past few weeks locked inside my own mind—fretting about the election, about the path forward, about empathy and entitlement, about the work we need to do. I haven't spent much time taking action beyond the bounds of my keyboard. I'm not prone to protest in the streets, but I will gladly seize any opportunity available to me to give away pie.

Last year, my extraordinary friend Ashlae from Oh Lady Cakes decided to wrangle a group of bloggers for a day of "Pie-ing It Forward". I wasn't able to participate last year, but knew that this time around would be different.

I love to support acts of kindness such as this!