If there are three things about this world I could change, it would be, that every village and every town in Africa had access to clean water, that the homeless are not forgotten and that pumpkin cookies could be made dense and chewy. I am serious. I have made progress in the first two. I have traveled to Africa twice, an experience that left me forever changed and one that I treasure every day of my life and I’ve participated in, organized and contributed to numerous organizations & events that help the homeless in San Diego. For some reason, I don’t really connect to old people, I don’t do much with kids, but with Africa and the homeless, they tug at my heart strings every time. But the last one, making a pumpkin cookie not cakey but dense and chewy, I just can’t seem to make much progress in. I get frustrated.
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