Meet Austin! Friday I got the opportunity to and other than being too shy to give me a high-five until later AFTER I got my head shaved, he is an adorable and lively little guy. In his 5 years of life so far he’s spent 3 of them battling cancer. But thanks to research and medical breakthroughs made possible by organizations like St. Baldrick’s Foundation and work done by great hospitals like UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital and not to mention his just being an amazing and brave little boy… he is doing well right now.

Look at this little guy.

THIS is who I am doing this for. Him and many like him who are still fighting this battle every single day. Please, if you are able, I hope you will take a moment to give even the smallest gift. You can donate —> here <—

I honestly didn’t need the hair as much as I needed to get that high-five!

Source:  ClevelandHeights Patch

So Home Depot has let it’s distributors know that it will no longer be selling books.

I decided to go to Twitter and begin talking about what classic literature we will be losing when this happens.

For example:

• Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leaks Under the Sink
• Harper Lee’s To Build a Mockingbird(house)
• Herman Melville’s Moby Deck

Please join me on Twitter with your own suggestions, or share in the comments.  If you go on Twitter, use hashtag #HomeDepotLit

Source: Publisher’s Weekly: “Home Depot To Stop Selling Books.”

Those of you who know me personally, know that I do media and video production for a living, and many of you are probably aware that I do so within University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital here in Cleveland, Ohio. In my capacity here, I do not have clinical responsibilities… I haven’t done any research into new medications or treatments for pediatric cancers… I don’t daily take the tiny heart of a baby and repair it to ensure continued life… I don’t give a kid without legs a new lease on life… I don’t sit and hold the hand of a mother and a daughter who don’t know what tomorrow will bring… but I am privileged to work with people who do.

What I do is make videos and run what we call the Rainbow Channel. I produce programming to try and give a little entertainment and sense of normalcy and fun into a stay at our hospital. If I manage to make a couple of them enjoy themselves for a part of their day, then I suppose it could be argued that I’ve helped in some small way. But I feel like I should always be doing more for them.

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