Racing for a cure
Many of you know that Promises to Keep was written after I lost one of my closest friends to breast cancer. Accompanying her on the journey was an extraordinary gift, and one that has continued, with me continuing to do a series of events that raise funds for breast cancer.
A few months ago I was asked to run a half-marathon to raise money for City of Hope – an extraordinary cancer facility that not only treats, but develops ground-breaking drugs –that are changing the face of cancer treatment.
I must have been half-asleep when they asked, because I found myself saying yes. That's right. I said yes. Despite my dangerous and potentially life-threatening allergy to exercise – I break out in a terrible sweat, my limbs ache all over, and it usually ends in collapse – I agreed.
On April 3rd I will join a group of amazing women to pound the streets of New York City to raise money. When I say pound, let's just say I am aiming for a slow shuffle, and readers, should I shuffle past Barneys and notice a must-have coat in the window, let me tell you now, I am going in.
In the meantime, I am sending out a plea to all you loyal readers to sponsor me. My team are the Resource Racers, raising funds for the Sheri & Les Biller Patient and Family Resource Center at City of Hope.
Please give whatever you can! To make a secure online donation, you must use the following link: www.cityofhope.org/resourceracers. Scroll down the list and click on my name.
If you prefer to send a check, please make it out to "City of Hope/BRC Marathon", and write my name in the memo section. Send the check directly to Kimberly Wah at City of Hope: 1055 Wilshire Blvd., 12th Floor, Los Angeles, CA, 90017.
As an added incentive, I'm going to pick the three highest donors, and will send them advance copies of my new book: Another Piece of my Heart. It won't be in bookstores until February 2012, but you could be reading it by May! The highest donor wins a set of signed books and lunch with the author in New York City.
I will be back to blogging and facebooking on May 1st. The building of Figless Manor, together with writing the new book, writing another book about the impending Royal Wedding that I will tell you about shortly, and various family things has overwhelmed me, and I have not been able to blog.
I've missed it. And I've missed you. Figless Manor is ready on May 1st, I am doing a culinary course at the French Culinary Institute starting at the end of May, and then back to writing the next book – I have the story and can't wait to sit down and get started.
In the meantime, please support my attempt at the half-marathon, and pray my allergic reaction isn't too bad...
