Here are some Flickr slideshows of Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walks. In Syracuse, where I was thankful because I could blame the rain for the drops on my face. Yes, my eyes teared when Melissa Agne told me that Marty Campbell had died in the spring from lymphoma. And Buffalo, where Darlene Swannie, a [...]

I’m on my way to Syracuse (my husband is driving) to cover tomorrow’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk. Being in the car means: I’m not harvesting tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, broccolis or raspberries. We ate the last wonderful sweet corn earlier this week. Because I will be away for a weekend, I know the chipmunks, [...]

A month of Making Strides against Breast Cancer walks starts this weekend with walks from Binghamton and Buffalo to Rochester and Waterloo. I’ll be at the Syracuse walk in Clinton Square, where I last worked in 2010, back when this blog was all fresh, shiny and new. So far, the weather looks good, much better than [...]

I know Regina McCormack is a good teacher at the Arbor Hill Elementary School because Tenayah Williams tells me so. “She’s my favorite teacher,” she says shyly. This is a Sunday. A day of no school. And two years since having Mrs. McCormack as her teacher, the youngster came out to support her Arbor Hill [...]

Lots going on this weekend. Saturday is of course the March for Jobs and Justice in Washington, D.C. Lots of folks are getting on buses tonight so they can be there. For you tweeters out there, use a #nysut or #nysutproud hashtag. Also starting tonight are leadership conferences for the North Country, Syracuse and Utica [...]

The morning is already half over and El-Wise and I are only just posting the beginning of the photos from Making Strides walks yesterday. Here’s one from Rochester. We promise many more to come. It’s just a crush and computers can only move so fast. Please do send us your pics as well. Email to [...]

Happy October! Yes, it’s time for autumn colors and since today marks the beginning of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, you know that means pink will be right up there. Soon you’ll see football players wearing pink. I even saw pink garbage bags yesterday! Today I’m driving toward Binghamton to cover the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer [...]

Soon we’ll be kicking off a month of Strides walks. This is the second year that Corning takes steps first, in September. They had a beautiful day and seeing Joyce Arms in pink is a beautiful sight. We featured Joyce and her fight against cancer in 2004. Her fight is not over and sadly, other [...]

Jennifer Gough’s life was changing in December 2004. She and her husband Jason were moving back to New York from Texas. A New York native, moving day back to her home state was one of her happiest. “My face hurt from smiling,” she recalled to an audience of 500 participants and supporters of the Making [...]

It was a sweltering Sunday as hundreds of minor league baseball fans gathered in Troy’s Joseph Bruno Stadium to see their Tri- City Valley Cats — sporting pink jerseys — take on the Staten Island Yankees in a game to benefit the Capital Region Action Against Breast Cancer (CRAAB). NYSUT, a longtime flagship sponsor of the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer fundraising walks, was a proud sponsor of this NY-Penn League game.