The Breast Cancer Site funds mammograms for women who can't afford them. You go there, click on the relevant button, and it takes you to a page of ads. The advertisers fund the mammograms whether you buy anything or not. During the month of October, each click is tripled in value and they're trying to fund 750 mammograms. As it stands, they're ( Read more... )

Got up at 6:15 this morning to go walk in another breast cancer walk. (This was the Komen Foundation's "Walk for the Cure," as opposed to last fortnight's American Cancer Society "Making Strides Against Breast Cancer.") It was a lovely cool, crisp autumn day, and houses along the way had decorated with more types of pink than you could shake a ( Read more... )

jcbdragon, alysswolf and I participated in the American Cancer Society "Taking Strides Against Breast Cancer" walk this morning. Fun, but brisk -- 50 degrees before the windchill, and walking down by the river, there was definitely a wind. Also, five miles? Hah. I did *not* walk five miles in 70 minutes. Not a chance. Four maybe. More than 3.2 (not a five ( Read more... )