Join me this Friday at the Paramount Theater (16th and Glenarm) to raise money for cancer research. The laughs will be plentiful, the women beautiful, the drinks strong, and the exeperience unforgettable. I look forward to seeing you all there. 

Buy tickets HERE (Code LPF419) 

I recently found this awesome image from my First Descents trip last August. 

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Woody Roseland spoke recently at the annual Courage for the Journey event put on by Denver’s St. Mary’s Academy. He talked to middle school boys and their fathers about his own journey through the difficulties of adolescent illness and his continuing battle with cancer. Never have I heard a story quite as powerful and compelling as his. He epitomizes what our annual program is about – Courage for the Journey through life. Just days before he was to speak, Woody found himself in the hospital undergoing chemotherapy once again. He could have quite understandably cancelled. But instead he came, stayed, met with our group, told his story in a way that touched the heart, and left us all in awe of his ability to preserve, to keep his sense of humor, to confront his challenge - and never accept defeat. Woody is a remarkable young man, an inspiration to all who are fortunate enough – as we were – to come to know him.

-Dan Luzadder, Chairman, Courage for the Journey 

I always feel strange waking up the day after being infused with chemotherapy. There's always the precarious feeling of being lost. Not that you don't know where you are (well, sometimes you don't know where you are) but more so that you don't know who you are. We like to separate our lives into manageable, bite size pieces. We use arbitrary events as landmarks to measure personal growth (or lack thereof): By summer I want to have lost 15 lbs... By time I'm 30 I want to be married.

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