What Can $5 Do? More Than You Might Think.

If you’ve been keeping track, then you know that I’ve raised $490 in Human Race donations so far. That puts me just $10 from my goal.

When I first posted about walking in the Human Race to raise money for ARFP, I said that I have over 100 followers on Twitter, so if each one donated just $5 I’d easily make my goal. Now I just need two. Continue reading

The Addictive Nature of Birdwatching

I’m not a bird person. It’s not that I don’t like birds. It’s just that I’ve never been very interested in them, beyond pointing out hawks sitting on poles by the highway, or looking for owls in the trees by my old house, or being entranced as a massive flock of unspecified birds wheels left and right, up and down in perfect choreography (which is, if you’ve never seen it, amazingly cool to watch). Continue reading

Freya Update: Biopsy Results

We got Freya’s biopsy results today, and everything looks good. The pathologist found no sign of cancer, so that’s a huge relief. The inflammation also appears to be a recent change — no sign of scarring, which apparently would have made it harder to get Freya back to 100%. So… Continue reading