So it’s been awhile since I’ve touched base with everyone. According to Carey Bradshaw and Perez Hilton I have broken the number one blog rule: keep blogging. Thus, rather than continuing my awkward state of silence I am officially turning over a new leaf. And with new beginnings comes…a new bike! Today, I received my […]

Two years ago I got to Anchorage on a bicycle. My team and I gave it our all for 70 days to get there. Yesterday one of my biggest role models passed away because of cancer. Steve Jobs changed the world in many ways, and there’s a great reason for that. From the Macintosh to […]

One year after getting back from Alaska I have learned a neat lesson from T4K: the duty to fight cancer lives on!

…I got a phone call from my grandma’s neighbor saying that my grandpa had “fallen.” Everyday my grandpa would walk to the end of the drive, pick up the mail, and since he wasn’t strong enough to walk all of the way back to the house, he would stop and sit on a stack of […]

What exactly is cancer, and why, even after years of study, are we still fighting it? Well, a friend of mine, Jesus Maldonado, explains better than I can here, condensing worlds of research into four elegant pages (and seeing him do it is unspeakably exciting, because it shows just how much people our age can […]

I was sitting down to do some school work in between passing periods this Monday morning when I had a strong inclination to compose this journal entry instead. Call it procrastination or whatever you’d like, but somehow this urge wrestled past my enormous OCD habit of “productivity all the time.” I always like to peruse […]

Cancer doesn’t discriminate. It effects the very young, the long-lived, and even the most healthy of us all. My brother-in-law was the latter. Quite possibly the most fit and healthy individual in our family (and we have a really fit family!) he was afflicted by a rare cancer that was even outside of its usual […]

At the end of the day, the Internet does a much better job explaining these things than I could ever dream: http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/outdoor-activities/biking/bicycle1.htm (I really did read the article. Just, you know, fyi.)

I want to talk about this exercise business. First of all, I am riding my freaking bike from Austin, Tx to Anchorage, AK. You would think that I am an athlete, a long time proponent of an active lifestyle. Well, guess again. Don’t get me wrong, since the semester I applied for Texas 4000, I […]

Six days have passed. I finally feel ready to share what happened last week. Last Thursday, September 15, my close friend Scott and I went to the weekly adoration and praise & worship service at the University Catholic Center. I especially prayed for my Aunt Isabel who has been suffering through her battle against cancer. […]