One of the first funerals Kim and I went to together after her mother died was Linda Bergwall’s. Many years earlier, Linda and I had gone to the same church together. It was a close knit group of kids in their twenties. We would all go to the beach together on weekends. The retreats were special events.

Linda was a talented sweater designer and a very special woman. She had a long battle with breast cancer, and it was hard for Kim and I to go to her funeral, especially so after Kim’s mother had died of cancer.

Perhaps that is part of the reason why Greg Hammond’s blog about his life with his wife Cheryl while she was fighting her cancer, and how he is dealing with life now especially touches me.

The other day, Michele Agnew and Sigmund, Carl and Alfred teamed up to have a comment-a-thon, where money would be donated to Oxfam based on the number of comments. It was a huge success, and now Greg is following suit with a comment-a-thon for The National Breast Cancer Association which will start tomorrow.

Please, go comment on Greg’s blog tomorrow. Even more importantly, people are pledging to co-sponsor the comment-a-thon. Please go to this blog post and add your own pledge.