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The Serenity Foundation’s first National Bloggers Blood Drive was a big, fun success!  We collected 23 units of blood which, by the numbers from ARUP, calculates to saving 69 lives - not bad for a quickly organized event! 

 I’ve uploaded the photos I took of several donors, they’re available on my Flickr Feed here.
Twelve Horses hosted […]

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Be a Hero, Save a Life, Donate Blood!
This is just an RSS reminder about the National Bloggers Blood Drive today, if you’re in Utah please come join us at Twelve Horses in Draper any time from 3 - 8 pm today.  There will be movies, games, snacks and a couple prize drawings along with hanging […]

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It’s almost time for The Serenity Foundation’s first quarterly National Bloggers Blood Drive! 
The goal of the NBBD is to hold local blood drives in multiple locations around the world that occur at the same time allowing live tweeting/flickring and blogging to go on.  This being the first event and being planned with very little lead […]

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OK, long time readers will know that I’ve been excited about Batman, The Dark Knight since hearing it was going to be made.  Well, tonight Adria managed to get us free tickets to the midnight opener and we just got back from it and HOLY awesome movie BATMAN!  I don’t want to ruin it for […]

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Joss Whedon, one of the wonders of the sci-fi/fantasy world and modern day superhero, has done it again!  If you don’t know Whedon’s work …. well, yes you do.  Whedon is the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and (the best series ever) Firefly.  Firefly of course was the precursor for the movie Serenity […]

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I’m really excited about this and I think it’s going to be REALLY cool! 
July 30th will be the first quarterly National Bloggers Blood Drive, this is a new project we’re organizing at The Serenity Foundation. 
As I mentioned in my previous post, I’ve been working on organizing a new twist on blood drives and blogger/twitter meetups.  […]

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This is Day 39 of my baby, Serenity, being diagnosed with and treated for Leukemia.  Day 37 is here. 
Serenity’s life was saved because people donated blood.  I have a lot of guilt about that - I have MAJOR needle-phobia and have always avoided blood donation.  But as I watched Serenity bravely face getting poked by […]

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This is Day 37 of my baby, Serenity being diagnosed with and treated for Leukemia.  Day 36 is here.
K, I admit that I’m probably, maybe a teeny little bit biased here - but I think these are super cute pictures of Serenity (probably not quite as cute as your kid though ).  I’m calling […]

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