Tour de Cure Rochester route

In 8 days Sughey and I will be participating in the Tour de Cure here in Rochester. For everyone participating you can find information about your route here.
Sughey will be riding 40 miles and I will be riding 62.5 miles. How many miles are you riding that day?
Happy riding!!!

Cake decorating at Michaels

Sughey has been taking a cake decorating class at Michaels. She has made three beautiful cakes in this four week long class. Here are some pictures of these cakes including her final assignment, the two-tier cake.
I think Sughey has done a great job with this class. What do you think?

Gareth Thomas and Whizz-Kidz

Gareth Thomas is a fellow pilgrim who I hope to meet in Spain this summer. He started his Camino from London on May 2nd and expects to arrive in Santiago de Compostela to celebrate the Feast of St James the Apostle on July 25th. I want to take an excerpt from his blog [...]

Avon Walk for Breast Cancer

My good friend Sally Kamprath this weekend will be participating with her daughter, Karen and good friend Lori in the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer in Boston in honor of Cheryl Kamprath, her sister in law.
The three of them have committed to complete the 26 mile walk. I wanted to take this time [...]

2008 Women for WineSense Award

I wanted to congratulate Lorraine Hems for winning the 2008 Women for WineSense second annual scholarship.
I have taken Lorraine’s Wines of the World 1 class at RIT and can honestly say she is a fantastic professor and a wine genius. If you have the opportunity to take any of the classes she teaches at the [...]

United Way Day of Caring

Yesterday the United Way held its annual Day of Caring here in the Greater Rochester area. Our assignment this year as well as last year was the Grace & Truth SportsPark located on North Greece Rd. It was cold and windy but the high spirits of the team made the day and [...]