Riding for Roses

This just in from the Lance Armstrong Foundation volunteer mailing list:

A Lion in the House, the award-winning documentary that follows the journeys of five young cancer patients and their families over a span of six years, will be shown in Austin in its entirety at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar at 1:00 p.m. this Sunday, [...]

Rachel reminds me that I haven’t said enough about how life is going these days.

Spencer is in remission from acute lymphoblastic leukemia and is now over halfway through 38 months of chemotherapy. He finished Kindergarten last month and was advanced to first grade without any issues. His attendance record shows him absent slightly less than [...]

KLRU’s Austin NOW is doing a show this week on two Austin cancer survivors. Spencer is one of them. They filmed a couple of typical activities in Spencer’s life – an oncologist visit and a rock climbing class – and interviewed Rachel, Spencer, and me. I haven’t previewed any of it, but based on [...]

All day on June 10, there will be lemonade stands at Chick-fil-A locations throughout Austin. Read the Alex’s Lemonade Stand event calendar for June 10, 2006 to get the full list of locations in Austin (conveniently at the top of the page) and all over the nation.

Alexandra “Alex” Scott was a four year old cancer [...]