Congratulations to the winner of our first monthly drawing

When I first started this campaign, I made a personal appeal to several of my friends, family and colleagues to make a donation. As an added incentive, I promised to hold a monthly drawing (the first 3 months to start) for a $50 gift certificate to any of the following stores:

Integrating Autistic People Into Society

The Wellesley Townsman published an article last week on my fund-raising campaign and and they keyed in on the fact that my goal is to ensure that Julien is integrated in society. The article’s author also had a child with Autism and during our interview she immediately understood what I meant by my this comment [...]

There’s No Dancing Under The Lights For Me Tonight

OK, so I ran Boston’s Run To Remember today….it wasn’t pretty, but I ran. I have no idea what temperature it was (somewhere in the 70’s), but it felt like the race ran right along the equator…I could have sworn I was in Key West or Cancun. I offer you this, of course, as [...]

I Run On The Road, Long Before I Dance Under The Lights

We now interrupt our regularly scheduled program on National Health Insurance to bring you this special message………………..
With only a few days left before my first race, it’s appropriate to get back “on message”. At this point, we’ve almost raised $3,000, thanks to the incredibly generous donations of a lot of people. However, this is just [...]

Do Autistic people need to be cured?

When I conceived my fundraising effort, I thought that the tagline to all my communications and promotions should be “Cure Autism”. After all, I assumed that those who are interested enough in donating to the Childrens Hospital Boston clinical research project on Autism would also be interested in seeing Autism prevented.

But then it occurred to [...]

Starting in the middle

Two days ago, I emailed all my friends and family to let them know about a quest I’ve embarked on to raise $50,000 for the Developmental Medicine Center at the Childrens Hospital Boston. This might seem like a good place to start my blog, since it is in fact a kind of start to this [...]