Hi All,

I am starting this team in loving honor of My Grandma, Nancy Cleese. She has fought an aggressive form of cancer for almost 5 years now, and her battle is nearing its end. Our family is making their peace with her, planning her death, and thinking of how we will possibly live on after a woman as wonderful and loving and silly and fun as she is passes on. We know she will always be with us in some way. 

This year, please join me in making my mark. I would love to raise $15,ooo in Grandma's memory, because I know come July, she will have left this world. She will have definitely made her mark.

I ask you to help me fight this disease with all you have in you, because maybe today you have never watched someone you love die of cancer. It is a truly horrific fate. To watch someone wither and die like a beautiful flower without any water. I have lost many loved ones to cancer. Someday it may be me. Our family history could make it so. Cancer is not picky. It is not race or gender specific. It could be any one of us, for any reason, or for no reason at all. We must help FIND A CURE. For our loved ones. For our children. For the future. 

I encourage you to share with us all your ideas to raise money, last year we had some champion fundraisers (Karen and her family, myself.... many people donated time and money and so much more...) and we raised over $600 at Relay!!!!  I aim much higher this year, and need only a wonderful, reliable team to back me in making this amazing dream come true.