Current Project

James Noel Gentry born on April 11. Here he is with Mom. He's our first. Click on the image to see it bigger.

Show up at Weems

The show is up at Weems, at their new location.

For April 15 show at Weems

More April 15

More April 15 show

April 15 show

Back to Back 2

Back to Back

Blue Kimono

Here comes a backlog of pictures for the April show at Weems. I think this is the star.

Bald and Pregnant (after St. Baldrick's)

After St. Baldrick's

The event was Sunday. We're shaved! The Albuquerque event raised $38,000 for research into childhood cancers. Thank you for your support. You made me the #1 fund raiser at this Albuquerque event.

You can see several pictures from the shaving here.

We are still working on a special "after" picture for the blog.

Thanks again!

St. Baldrick's

I'm shaving my head, and I'll be 9 months pregnant at the time! Why? As part of St. Baldrick's, a charity event where volunteers shave their heads in solidarity with children who have lost their hair during their battle with cancer. Cancer is a leading killer of children. Our nephew, Nathan Gentry, died a month after his seventh birthday in July 2007, a victim of Neuroblastoma.

Our friend, Elisabeth Villavicencio, MD, PH.D., is a pediatric oncologist, and says this about funding for research of childhood cancers.

Sadly, it is harder than ever to get research funding. Most NIH grants are unfunded. Companies that develop drugs typically focus their research on common adult cancers, since they need to be able to recoup their research and development costs through drug sales. Since pediatric cancer is rare, there will never be profit in developing drugs for this small but very important group of patients. Thus, private funding is critical to finding cures for childhood cancer.

You can help save children's lives by pledging me to shave my head as part of a St. Baldrick's event on March 16. You can pledge online, by phone, or download a form to mail. Just click here.

The above picture is my before picture. I promise an after picture, as well.