Blogging about food on #BAD11

This year, Blog Action Day -- when all participating bloggers write on the same topic -- coincides with World Food Day.

I volunteered at the Daily Bread Food Bank in Toronto for a couple of years in the 1990s. My job was to track the weight of food contributions and to write letters of thanks to people who donated food.

I also helped ensure that people who wanted to organize a food drive in their office had the bins and pin-up posters they needed. Most people who used the food bank were employed -- they just didn't earn enough money to be able to cover the cost of the quantity of food they needed each month.

The first stage play I ever saw was a production of Oliver! in London's West End when I was a child.  The musical adaptation of Oliver Twist, the novel by Charles Dickens, was a transformational experience for me.  In my household we always had enough to eat and I had never considered that some people might not until I saw the play.