P.ink Day Minneapolis is coming up in just a few short weeks! Three to be exact!! I just found out that the local PBS channel, TPT, got clearance to produce a thirty-minute show about P.ink Day Minneapolis 2014! It will show here in Minneapolis on Sunday, October 4th at 7 PM Central time. They will … Read more
About 10 years ago, I was diagnosed as having Dupuytren’s contracture in my right hand. Along the way, it started to develop in my left hand also. It is a non-painful condition where there is fixed forward curvature of one or more fingers. It is caused by the development of a fibrous connection between the … Read more
P.ink Day Minneapolis is happening in just one month! October 10th is the day we will all gather at Twilight Tattoo and the six amazing women survivors will get their healing tattoos! This coming weekend, on Sunday, September 13th, we are all meeting at Twilight so that the artists can meet their survivor and everyone … Read more
#PinkTattooDayMSP I’m excited to introduce you to our second Survivor Warrior for P.ink Day Minneapolis 2015! We have selected six warrior women to be the recipients of a free tattoo over their mastectomy scars at Twilight Tattoo on Saturday, October 10th. Deb Kuhns is 54 years old and she lives in Hastings, Minnesota. Deb was … Read more
#PinkTattooDayMSP We’ve started getting ready for P.ink Day Minneapolis 2015. It will once again be on October 10th. P.ink Day is our annual day of healing with ink, when we pair tattoo artists with breast cancer survivors for a free mastectomy tattoo. It’s our make-a-wish experience that puts survivors at the center of our universe. … Read more
Eight years ago, 111 cyclists who have diabetes rode in the American Diabetes Association Tour de Cure Colorado as Red Riders. The ride started and finished at the Boulder Valley Fairgrounds, just outside of Denver, Colorado. It was August 2007. It was the roll out of the Red Riders!! I had decided that 100 was … Read more
I’ve been through a lot this past week. It amazes me how much can happen in just one week. To realize that I’ve felt outside of my family for my whole life, and to learn that I wasn’t making it up. None the less, I do matter. My life is valuable. Â All of our lives … Read more
Last week my father died. We held a Memorial that was well attended. It was good to see how many people remembered good things about my father. He had a rough life. I learned quite a bit from him. Including the value of calling oneself an athlete. Being an athlete has made all the difference … Read more
In the summer of 1970, I was five years old and my little brother Marty had just been born. I decided I was ready to learn to ride the bike my parents had gotten for me. It was a Schwinn blue bike. My dad had cut and strapped on wooden blocks to the pedals so … Read more
Today, 34 years ago, June 26, 1981, I came home from a lunchtime birthday party and I was dying of thirst. And I’d already peed about 10 times that day. I’d lost about 20 pounds in the previous month, and I was eating non-stop. When my dad got home from work, my mom and he … Read more