I, like the rest of the 2012 riders, are new to the Texas 4000 team. When I walked into my first meeting in the CPE building, I immediately knew that this group of individuals would soon become my second family. When I watched the 2011 team break a world record of “the most dancers wearing […]

A year and a half…. Ok, I can live with that. Even though I can’t get T4K off my mind, I think I can wait that long. The reality that I will be biking 4000 miles across the United States in a little over a year is sometimes hard to believe. I mean, HOW COOL […]

My latest schooling in panhandling came from a nice homeless man named Steve and his wife, Jessica. I was out with Maria one afternoon last semester at my favorite panhandling haunt. Steve and his wife were at the same street corner where I like to panhandle, which led to a bit of a dilemma for […]

My first time panhandling was with Jeremy and some other teammates near the end of the summer when we were all trying to make our September 1st $1000 fundraising deadline. I was impressed by Jeremy who has fine-tuned his panhandling skills to an art. He’s watched different intersections and analyzed which would be the best […]

Here’s to now… Since my last blog, I haven’t really felt that anything significant has happened to me that I could blog about, and i’ve been really wanting to get something written down to share with you. A friend once told me that the best journeys are those, that in the beginning, answer the questions […]

Here I am at the precipice of the journey of a lifetime. This is my first entry as a member of the team for summer 2012, and there are too many things I want to tell you about. I want to tell you about why I am here, (my warrior of a mother) I want […]

Okay, so all day I have been thinking about the incredible opportunity that both the 2011 and 2012 teams had last night to hear Mike Thompson (http://ironmikey.com/aboutus.aspx) speak at our weekly meeting. Literally, the encouragement and light that he brought to that engineering room last night have truly been sitting with me all day. Mike, […]

‘be humble, for you are made of earth. be noble, for you are made of stars.’ — serbian proverb a lot of people like to come out with a bang, but i’m not really good at that. in fact, i’m not really good at blogs in general, but some things are just worth talking about. […]

2/1/11 The bitter wind numbs my fingers as I stare down at my bicycle’s sleek frame; juxtaposed against my weak legs it looks foreign. 30 degrees seems like a distant dream. Today it’s 18. Each time I push a little harder, I hate myself for complaining at easier times. Perspective. The essence of T4K in […]

My Dad was diagnosed with liver cancer, colon cancer and diabetes on September 6, 2009. Until January of this year I didn’t know the whole story – even now I feel as though my parents are shielding me from knowing all the details. It astonishes me to know there is a war going on within […]