It is a very odd feeling to hear about people dying from the cancer for which I have been treated for the past two years. Maybe it is just me, but I don't often think about the possibility of dying.

British actor Paul Scofield died yesterday of Leukemia. This was rather startling to hear about. In light of this, and for so many other reasons, I am so grateful to have an opportunity to do what I can to further this cause.

Handicap!

You know how in some sports, if a player has an unfair advantage, they play with a "handicap"? At least I think that's how it works. Out of all the candidates for Woman of the Year, I would probably not be considered the one who needed an EXTRA handicap (haha...). However, for the past eleven days I have been playing with a handicap. If you attempt to access my website for donations from the main page, the link doesn't work!!!

That probably deserves...at least $10K/day to catch me up to where I should be. Yeah.

In case you have been attempting to access the website to make a donation, once again, the link is http://www.active.com/donate/bluegrassmwoy/kjirstenbrynn

Smile, its St. Paddy's Day!

Snapshots

Do you keep snapshots in your head? I have enough to fill scrapbook upon scrapbook...but snapshots I keep in my head are different than the ones you take with a camera. When its in your head, you can have the noise, the taste, the temperature...so many different elements that make up one "snapshot."

One of my favorite snapshots from the trip I took in May (with my dad and John Thomas) to Mexico couldn't possibly fit in an actual hard-bound scrapbook. I can't call it an image, because it has other sensory details that you cannot see with your eyes. In fact, I want you to close your eyes. Well, read the next paragraph and THEN close your eyes and try to imagine it in your head.

First, it is warm, so warm you could melt butter on the sidewalk, but not so hot that you can't walk barefoot comfortably. Now add color. A lot of color. Bright green, a big splash of red, cool blue water in a pool, tiled under in neutrals. Deep, opaque but at the same time completely transparent sky. A few fluff-ball clouds. You can smell something like barbeque, more like roasting peppers--slightly spicy, but not overwhelming. Chattering people in the distance, Mexicans selling their wares to tourists with broken English phrases.

I could keep on for pages describing my Mexico. There is so much I haven't even begun to adequately describe about this particular snapshot. I hope you keep snapshots in your head, and that you go through them periodically. It is these defining snapshots that make up the substance of you and me...without them, we would be rather two dimensional, don't you think?

It's Official!

Alright everybody! My campaign has officially begun! We're working on planning some events in Kentucky, and here in Utah as well. Let me know if you'd like to do something to help out! I can use all the help I can get.

We will be having some fun incentives for donations of different amounts, so check back regularly to see what's new!

You can go here http://www.active.com/donate/bluegrassmwoy/kjirstenbrynn to donate :)

Love,
Brynn

This is Why I Love Chemistry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqeVEFFzz7E enjoy!