2009 Pan-Mass Challenge
For the tenth straight year I'll be riding in the Pan-Mass Challenge which, through the Jimmy Fund, raises money to support research and treatment at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. For more information you might look at this year's fact sheet (PDF).
You can contribute online if you'd like to support my effort.
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2008 PMC Dolbens

2008 Pan-Mass Challenge Dolbens: Martha, Don, Deane, Hank, and Drew.
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2008 Pan-Mass Challenge
For the ninth straight year I'll be riding in the Pan-Mass Challenge which, through the Jimmy Fund, raises money to support research and treatment at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. For more information you might look at this year's fact sheet (PDF).
You can contribute online if you'd like to support my effort.
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A Little Piece of Heaven
Lone climber,
she toils up
rock strewn path,
heart pounding,
brow sweating.
Ne'er alone,
here, in her,
Father's soul,
strong, loving,
stern, giving.
All his friends
carry on
there, with him
filling life,
death - defused.
Heav'nly hosts
sing with joy,
every voice
living now,
feeling love.
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D-Day
June 6th has always meant something special to my family. To begin with, my parents were married on June 6th, two years before D-Day, on the day that my father was commissioned in the Army Air Force. Then there was D-Day, when my father-in-law stormed one of those famous beaches in France. After the war, my father's father died on June 6th. In my mind this always seems more like Memorial Day than the last Monday in May.
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