1. I missed my five-year blogging anniversary on the 7th. Whoops! But I took nine months off, so maybe it doesn’t really count. I’d give you some five-year stats on hits and stuff, but I quit tracking my hits and page views when we launched That’s Church. I might have 30,000 readers. I might have [...]

Category: Awesome Burghers, Ben Roethlisberger, Local media, Steelers, The Damn Pigeons | tags: Ben Roethsliberger, Make Room for Kids, Pittsburgh Steelers | July 9, 2010 | 16 Comments »

Last night I met Mario Lemieux. I’m sorry. I think I’m going to cry. Give me a minute. Okay. So, after years and years and years and YEARS of loving the man, and after more recent years of kinda sorta stalking the man and trying to steal his stuff from his foundation offices, with no [...]

Category: Celebrity sightings, Penguins, Steelers | tags: Make Room for Kids, Pittsburgh Penguins, Pittsburgh Steelers | July 7, 2010 | 48 Comments »

A surprise in my mailbox on Saturday! A thank you card from some of the staff and the patients and their families on the transplant floor of Children’s Hospital! It’s just as much your card, as it is mine.

Category: Random | tags: Make Room for Kids | June 28, 2010 | 7 Comments »

1. Tonight is the Treehouse meeting, and I hope that I can count on some of you to be there with me as a show of support for Amy.  I know she’d greatly appreciate it as well, considering that one of the opponents to the treehouse said, “If you’ve got a treehouse, what better place [...]

Category: Mayor Ravenstahl, Penguins, Pirates, Steelers | tags: Luke Ravenstahl, Make Room for Kids, Pittsburgh Penguins, Pittsburgh Pirates, Pittsburgh Steelers | June 7, 2010 | 23 Comments »

So, yesterday. BIG DAY for Make Room for Kids. I arrived at Children’s at 9:30 a.m. to meet up with Jenn Strang from IKEA who came bearing the carts, and to wait for the rest of the crew who were due to arrive at 9:45. At exactly 9:45 a.m., and I do mean exactly, and [...]

Category: Awesome Burghers | tags: Make Room for Kids | April 30, 2010 | 91 Comments »