It’s nuts, it’s crazy, but it’s real. The day is finally coming and I am no where close to ready. I am moved out of my bedroom snuggled in a sleeping bag in my living room with T4K items scattered around me (which have yet to packed) We do not have a dinner on Day […]

The doctor’s call it “first day of school” syndrome. I’ve been informed there is no real cure. As a kid, I would eagerly anticipate that day in August when a new school year would roll around. I had my pencils sharpened and stuck in those pencil holders inside my bookbag pocket that no one ever […]

I’ve never met Haley. I might never meet her, as Norman, Oklahoma is a long ways from Austin, Texas (yes I know, it is closer than Anchorage). What I do know about Haley is that she belongs to the same sorority as my dear friend Claire Friedman and was one of the first donations I […]

Eniye always smiled brightly at me. She always acted like I was hilarious, which in the spirit of a compliment, I may be, but definitely not always. And perhaps the most important thing about Eniye and I, is that we have a common consensus, without a doubt, where you can get the best fried chicken […]

A haiku about wind. Title: Wind My arch-nemesis. I’m biking to fight cancer Must you slow me down? That is just a little something I made up during the 75-miler to San Marcos yesterday. I hope you enjoyed it 🙂 To say the least, the first two days of Ride Texas 4000 were pretty brutal. […]

For the love of life, do what you need to do. On April 23rd, at about 2:00 PM, my bike and I hit the ground and tumbled after a bike accident (of no one’s fault- could have happened to anyone) that landed me in the ER for two days. I had never before been in […]

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— “Monsters are real; ghosts are real, too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.” — Stephen King “Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.” — Cornel West “When I was younger, definitely, I let it get to me. As […]

I can’t begin to fathom how close we are from leaving. I wish I could enjoy thinking about it more but there are two finals to go. Monday night’s team meeting was strange. We didn’t really talk about what we usually discuss. There was a different air in the room. Everyone seemed to be a […]

On Monday evening, LIVESTRONG kindly offered us a space in their headquarters for our Monday night meeting. According to Jamille, we’ve been to over forty Monday night meetings as a team. It is SO weird to think that there are only two more Mondays before we’re off. For the past year and a half, Monday […]