imnotsureiLOVE: Movember!!!

I am leaving for Mexico in a couple of hours to shoot what promises to be an amazing wedding, but on the home front, something important is on the horizon.

For anyone who didn't know it, I am an active supporter of raising funds for cancer research.  Generally, I dedicate my time to clickin' cancer's butt for the Canadian Cancer Society with the Relay for Life, carrying on in honour of my father, who died of heart disease but spent his living years shaving his head for my cousin John, who lost his foot to cancer decades ago.

My husband Bill has always been a supporter of this cause, whether pestering friends for donations, bringing us coffee at obscene hours of the morning during Edmonton's Relay, or just doing what he does best while I'm out and about: being Daddy to our wonderful kids.  This year, though, his soccer team has decided to sign up for Movember, an event during which men grow out the best moustachio they possibly can in support of prostate cancer research.  Generally speaking, I think he just wants an excuse to look like a 70s porn star.  But the great thing about it is, it's for a great cause, one that has become closer to my heart because my only living uncle was diagnosed earlier this year, as well as a very dear dear friend's Dad, Mr. H.  Prostate Cancer.

Something else you need to know is that both my sister and I work at universities.  While we don't work in the Faculty of Medicine, we do work with incredible teams of researchers whose sole vision is to find ways of making the world a better place.  And in any faculty, the work researchers do isn't possible without financial support.  When I come home, nothing would make me happier than seeing a good-sized coffer on Bill's sponsor page - the funding that pays for dedicated people to seek, innovate, discover, CURE.  Please, clink on Bill's Sponsor Page and donate.  $5, $20, $50, $1 million dollars - doesn't matter, because every dollar is one step closer to a cure.  Instead of clickin' cancer's butt, I ask you kindly, respectfully, to kick cancer where it really counts: right in the Movember.