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Awareness continues to grow about the scourge of sexual violence on college campuses. More assault survivors are supporting each other to break the silence and challenge their universities’ mishandling of complaints. Reports of rape given to institutions have risen dramatically — by 34 percent between 2010-2012. A new White House task force to prevent school…
Read MoreCloser By The Mile, my debut book chronicling the story of the Pan-Mass Challenge, a singular ongoing commitment and trajectory of hope for cancer research, is available on Amazon. Published in the summer of 2013, the book conveys how the Pan-Mass Challenge has grown to raise $414 million for Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute during 34 years. Readers come along…
Read MoreIn Newtown, Conn., the question was asked. Should the town hold its annual Labor Day parade this year? After the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, after the eulogies for 20 first-graders and six educators, amid the drumbeat of news stories across the country and hushed conversations around town, all adding up — still —…
Read MoreNear the eastern most point of the U.S., efforts to preserve a cultural heritage sacred to the Passamaquoddy Tribe in Machias Bay were replenished earlier this summer through the conservation of a headland known as Long Point. The peninsula and its adjoining uplands, which total 66 acres, were purchased by the Maine Coast Heritage Trust,…
Read MoreWell before donning my riding shoes for the Pan-Mass Challenge bike-a-thon, I had anticipated being wowed by a spirit of goodwill. But setting out to ride for the first time in the country’s most successful sports philanthropy event, I could not have estimated how much participants from every angle would lift each other in support of cancer…
Read MoreHere is a sample from Closer By The Mile, the story of the Pan-Mass Challenge bike-a-thon for cancer research, published in 2013: One day Sandy Fitzgerald was out walking with her amber-eyed granddaughter. She asked Hannah: “Do you think we’ll ever take life for granted again?” “Grandma, never,” she said. “Never, ever.” When she was…
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Let the beauty we love be what we do. Ken read this at Mike and PJ’s Memorial Celebration with friends and family members Nov. 16, 2012 at the Monponsett Inn, Halifax, Ma. Thanks so much everyone for being here tonight. I want to express my sense of what we’re doing here, why it’s so vital…
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