Pride gets a bad rap. You know, being one of the seven deadly sins and all. I don’t really get it (I’m not anti-lust either, but we don’t need to go there). I mean, I see how pride can be a negative, if you’re excessively proud without good reason, if you’re proud of the wrong […]
More pictures and more stories: We had a lot of school teams this year, which is exactly what I want this event to become and what I hope drives our numbers up even higher in the future. Fernway School in Shaker, home to two preschool buddies of Braedan and Austin, fielded a team of ten […]
Thank you, thank you, thank you. To everyone. To all of the hundreds of people who donated money on the heads of our shavees. To our tireless barbers from Quintana’s and Shawn Paul Salon for putting everyone at ease and working without complaint in such good spirits for so many hours. To Mike Kenney who […]
Thank you doesn’t come close. Counting the cash and checks we brought home today, plus our online donations, we have currently raised $39,620. Fabulous. And, of course, it was so much more than that. I will now repost what I wrote after last year’s event, because there’s no point in reinventing the wheel here: As […]
Ready for these? Oh, they’re good ones alright … From a restaurant in New Jersey: And another in Hawaii: A friend of my brother’s saw this one in a bar in Denver: A high school in Chicago: A different friend in Chicago was obviously in the very same building: At a Starbucks in Bowling Green: […]
Whatever you celebrate, wherever you are… be a light in the darkness. From a recent post I wrote for St. Baldrick’s: Lighting the Darkness By Krissy Dietrich Gallagher, mother to Austin, 2012 Ambassador Kid My grandfather died on December 21, 1982. The shortest – and darkest — day of the year. Cancer, of course. My […]
You’ve heard it all over the media these past eight days: The teachers in Sandy Hook were heroes. And they were. No doubt about it. But they were also just teachers; they were doing — in a most basic and ordinary sense — what teachers do, all over the country, each and every day. Teachers […]
I know many of you, like me, have felt hopeless in the face of such tragedy. Wondering what you can possibly do to ease the pain and suffering of the families in Newtown. The answer, sadly, is little. There are no words strong enough to bring their children back, no teddy bear that could replace […]
This one might be a little rough, so consider yourself warned. As so much we’ve seen and read and watched has been rough over the past few days … Mark and I had that horrid conversation the other day, that I imagine many parents of the sick have had this weekend. It’s a rather gut-wrenching […]
It never ceases to amaze me how quickly we can revert back to our old roles. How seamlessly we become who we once were: the patient and the advocate, the comforter and the distractor. It’s as if we never left that old hospital world; it all feels so familiar, so deep in our bones, even […]