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Double down

Oh,yes we did. Doubled our last year’s total.

But it’s not official until Autumn Burke’s slideshow happens. Enjoy. And don’t forget your tissue.
autumnburke.com/tuesday2013

Thank you for being a part of Team Tuesday.
xo
Jessica

Posted 2 months, 1 week ago at 1:00 pm. 31 comments

Team Tuesday take 4

Sequestration? We don’t need no stinkin sequestration! Cutting the paltry amount of funding for childhood cancer research? Well, forget you and forget you too.
We have what it takes to find the cure…

Team Tuesday is back and going bananas! We are sitting at $38,029 at this moment. We are not even close to being done. We are $12,000 higher than last year’s event and a smidge away from $100,000 raised in our 4 years with St. Baldricks. And St. Baldricks raises funds for childhood cancer like a mofo!
Team Tuesday is a group of kids and parents. We are not a big foundation, we don’t have corporate sponsors, we are kids and parents and piggy bank money and donations from grandparents and uncles and aunts and friends and neighbors and we are awesome. This is where you should use the word awesome. Go ahead. AWESOME!

You can help us become one of the top 20 Fundraising teams in the world for St. Baldricks.
Ready? Go!
http://www.stbaldricks.org/teams/tuesday

Posted 2 months, 1 week ago at 9:50 pm. 4 comments

Giving Tuesday

Once you have known Suffering, you will recognize Suffering on the street and in the stores and through the screens that show us the pictures of the places that we’re not. Even if you haven’t seen Suffering in a while. Maybe not always, but usually. Suffering! You haven’t changed a bit! You look exactly like I remember you.
If you could hide from Suffering, you would be the best hider in the whole wide world. Sucker! You’ll never find me! But, you can’t hide. Suffering is everywhere. But listen, Suffering has something to tell you, if and when you meet Suffering. If you are brave enough to listen, Suffering will tell that you are not alone. That you are courageous. That you are stitched to all the others that Suffering has known with a yarn that is stronger than something really strong that I can’t think of right now. But it’s really strong.
Once you’ve met Suffering, when you see Suffering out there, you want to go to Suffering and remind Suffering that you know it will keep coming, but that WE will keep coming too. To share the burden of Suffering and to remind those that, even though they may want to, Suffering is not always worth hiding from.

On this November 27, Giving Tuesday, Reach out to Suffering and tell her Tuesday sent you.

Go to whatchagonnado.org to see what we are Giving to.

Posted 5 months, 4 weeks ago at 8:50 pm. 47 comments

Pablove Shutterbugs Love

I don’t really come here anymore. It’s not that I don’t write. I’m always writing in my head, but I just don’t feel like putting it down. Or don’t remember how. Or why. It is still painful here. More painful than you want to know about these three + years later. I still get your comments and I still marvel at the fact the you still come here. That you still reach out. That Tuesday is still thought about and cared about.

I’m writing tonight because I want you to know about something that I hold dear. People that I love that are doing everything they can to make life better for little people fighting cancer. Little people like Tuesday and like their little person, Pablo. This interview was aired last night on NBC Nightly News. Please take a few mites to watch. Catherine, Jeff and Jo Ann and everyone at Pablove, I admire you so. Thank you.

NBC Nighty News Interview

Here are my thoughts on Shutterbugs. I hope they move you to support this cool and unique program.