‘You get to see the best in people’: TribLive reporter volunteers at Salvation Army kettle

Dec. 17—I should have switched my bell-ringing hand at least once. If there is one lesson I learned from taking a shift ringing the Salvation Army's Red Kettle bell on a crisp, clear Thursday morning, that was it: Don't just ring the bell for 90 minutes with the same arm. It doesn't feel like you're doing a lot of work. But at 42 years old, it's now the kind of activity for which I should have …