RELAY FOR LIFE

I'm participating in the local American Cancer Society Relay For Life again this year. The Huntsville AL event will be on May 18, 2012, from 7 pm to 7 am the following morning. Funding cancer research and showing my support of fighters and survivors is important to me.

If you feel likewise, and are able to contribute, here is a link to my fundraising page for online donations:

http://www.main.acsevents.org/site/TR/RelayForLife/RFLFY12MS?px=27218362&pg=personal&fr_id=38031

In particular, I'll be walking* in support of my ultra-running friend Angela. She has metastatic breast cancer that is now (among other issues) playing havoc with her liver.



*my goal is to spend as much of the 12 hours overnight as I can in motion (this year's slogan is "Cancer never takes a holiday", so I won't either.) However, I've got a 40 mile ultra this weekend and a 24 hour trail run the first weekend of June, so I'm going to keep the relay to a leisurely pace.

Books #27 & 28

27) Moore, Chistopher. SACRE BLEU: a comedy d'art. MOrrow: 2012.

Moore set out to write a book about the color blue. Don't let Moore's quirky characters and bawdy language fool you. His writing has depth, and his peculiar take on the Impressionists will reel you in. What he ended up with is a surprisingly complex novel full of love, death, art, mystery and muses. Though the question at the story's heart is less interesting than the fictional anecdotes about the great painters, fans of Moore's mix of wit and slapstick will be pleased.

I was.

28) Saricks, Joyce. READERS' ADVISORY SERVICEIN PUBLIC LIBRARIES. ALA: 2005.

For work, but got me excited about devoloping my skills in this area of public service.