Riding for Roses

JB is raffling his 1963 Ford F100 to help fight cancer. You can learn more and get a chance to Win JB’s Vintage 1963 Ford Truck. Funds raised will benefit the Leukemia Lymphoma Society. The Leukemia Lymphoma Society’s mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of [...]

Early voting opened Monday for the Texas election, which consists of a number of ballot initiatives. I’m planning to go vote tomorrow in favor of proposition 15, which creates the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas and authorizes $3B of general obligation bonds over 10 years to fund cancer research and prevention in [...]

An open letter to Lance Armstrong and Doug Ulman (CEO of the LAF),

I hold you two, and the entire LAF, responsible for the attached photo. After Lance mentioned (again) “more wristbands than I’ve ever seen on one person” at the LIVESTRONG Challenge Austin pre-ride dinner, Spencer decided he had to one-up himself. He scoured the [...]

Oh dear, what a long hiatus. I feel a desire to dig through my journal and family newsletter to backdate some postings to reflect the past 9 months, but for now I’ll just dive right in.

Spencer is doing well overall, but we had some minor problems last week. Over Spring Break (which ended March 18), [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

The LAF Manifesto video is released in a small Flash version. There is also a large version of the LAF Manifesto video that you can load directly. Both versions have compression too high (and quality a little too low) for my taste. I’m asking around to see if there will be higher quality versions online.

I [...]

We are all busy and advocacy can be hard work. So, let’s make it simple. Visit the Lance Armstrong Foundations Take Action Now page and send two quick faxes or emails to your Senators and Representative asking them to support cancer research and survivorship issues.

It is easy. It takes five minutes if you take the [...]

It’s time for our nation to address our issues. Together, we can help change things for the better. As a team, we can make a difference for survivors.” – Lance Armstrong

Today is Livestrong Day – a day to celebrate cancer survivorship and take a moment to advocate for change. I’ll be posting several times [...]