Dear Lisa
The Lisa Fund
I read about you today on my friend Elizabeth’s blog — Table For Five. We don’t know each other, and I’d never chanced upon your blog before. I saw a fun blog, authored by a beautiful, witty woman. A fellow mom writing about her life with humor and candor. The kind of woman I wish I was, or could be. And there you are, and you have cancer for the third time.
“Why not me?”, I asked myself. It could be me or any of the moms I know (and don’t know). I have a heightened sense today of how much I love life, and all the pain and drama that comes with it. I’m also thinking hard about my own mortality, and how I don’t exercise enough (at all?), and who would care for my six kids if anything happened to me. And how I haven’t taken any of them to Disneyland yet.
And I keep thinking about you. And how much I want you to kick cancer’s ass and how much I want to help you.
And I want you to go to Disneyland with your daughters.
Love,
A fellow blogger, mom and woman
*Note to readers: the suggested donation for the Lisa Fund is $10. I donated $60 (once for each of my six kids). Please give what you can. The organizers have some great prizes that you can win. You can also help by blogging about it, putting up the button, or donating a prize.
I see you
