First let me apologize that it has been a while since I have written. It has been busy and a lot is going. I am working on an annual report which is needed for Guidestar certification which will be a good way to recap our accomplishments for everyone. In the meantime, I just experienced a magical moment and I had to share. This is not the...
Striving for More needs to start raising funds and we plan to have some fun at the same time. A core group is being formed to brainstorm and plan events, select event venues, identify sponsors and recruit additional volunteers for event staffing. The team will be split into groups so you don’t need to be good at everything to...
In June of 2009, I had the good fortune to have a meeting with Deidre Hughey of The Buzz Builder. During our meeting, Deidre told me about Albert Mehrabian's communications model. His research is summarized in the following way: 7% of the meaning of your message is communicated in the words that you use. 38% of meaning is communicated...
I know it has been a long time since I have blogged and I apologize. My plan is to start blogging more regularly, even if my message is only short and sweet. (For those of you who know me, do you think that is possible?) 2009 was a great year for Striving for More. It was a year for foundation building. An amazing group of people joined our...
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Today I remembered chemo… The chemotherapy drugs given to your child in the hopes that it can cure them are also hazardous chemicals that bring a whole host of other side effects, some irreversible. Side effects including heart damage, kidney damage, infertility, adult onset cancers,...
I just finished watching A Lion in the House . It is a documentary that was released in 2006 and is both an Emmy Award and a Sundance Film festival standout. It focuses on five families who each have a child battling some form of childhood cancer. The filmmakers (Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert) also fought the disease with their own...
I took the day off today and spent it with Ashli. When I went to her house to pick her up, some of Kyleigh's classwork was out on the table. Baileywick has started sending it home since it is the end of the year. Ashli shared one of the stories with me. In September, Kyleigh wrote the following story. I asked if I could share it on the blog...