I wasn’t able to create Brain Matters’ fundraiser last year because I had several physical challenges, and my mom had just died after having a “massive stroke” the year before. This year I had another dose of challenges, but even so I was determined that Brain Matters WOULD create our annual FALL fundraising event. Brain Matters is about ...
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At the end of last year when I usually do my Brain Matters fundraiser, I was starting to have several physical problems. I wasn’t able to talk louder than a whisper. At first, I thought it was due to a cold, or a virus, or worst-case scenario COVID, because at that time that’s what everyone was extremely worried about, but I didn’t go many places and wherever I did go I wore a mask. I was diligent about my vaccines, ...
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It has been 10 years since I was getting ready to begin my walk from my house on Long Island, New York to Massachusetts General Hospital. I had planned over a year for that walk. I started thinking about it after my family and myself had finally moved to a house we had been waiting a long time to ...
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A lot can happen in a year…its been 1 year since our last Brain Matters Fall Fundraiser! It’s hard to believe. In some way it feels like it was just a few months since last year’s fundraiser and in another it definitely feels like it has been a whole year.
So much HAS happened this year! These are just some of those things. My youngest daughter graduated from college, my Mom turned 90 a couple of weeks ago and is movin’ and groovin’. My husband ...
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There is a season…Turn, Turn, Turn; that Pete Seeger song comes to mind for so many reasons. It comes to mind because it musters the image of Fall and the changing leaves, which brings to mind our Brain Matters Annual Fall Fundraiser. It bubbles to mind all the amazing memories of my having walked among the changing ...
It’s Fall! That’s fundraising time for Brain Matters. We’re excited-we have quite a few terrific events that we’ve worked on throughout the year for this special time. Be sure to click on the link on the HOMEPAGE and check them out. The funds raised from these donations help brain cancer research and awareness.
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to embark on my 5th Annual fundraiser for brain cancer research through my non-profit Brain Matters. It doesn’t seem like 5 years since I left my house to start walking 250 miles to Mass General Hospital, but it is…and if I think about all that has actually happened since then, it ...
“Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” John Wooden
Do you spend time thinking if only this or that would have happened? Do you think about all the advantages that everyone else has and that you don’t? Do you see a failure as the end of the road instead of ...
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I’ve thought about the quote “I’m Damn Glad to Be Here” many times in my life for different reasons. I’m sure there are those of you who totally get what I’m talking about. There’s the reason to feel glad because you’ve escaped the bad or realize how much worse things could be…the understanding of the “relativity of life”. Then there’s the ...
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