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How many times in life have you thrown away $1.00 and never thought twice? Today we ask you to do just that. We are hoping to open a bar. Economy being what it is we do not have the funding for it at the present time. The bar we are looking into requires a $50,000 down payment. We have raised a total of $17,352 so far, but still have a ways to go. The bar, once we get it open, is going to be a comfortable and exciting establishment. We plan to offer many different forms of entertainment including: Karaoke, Bands, card/pool/dart tournaments, live contests and pageants, competitions of many kinds and even the occasional mud/jello wrestling. As in other words a bar that is fun and entertaining for all. Our community needs something like this desperately. This is our dream and has been for many years, just as you have had dreams too. We are so close to achieving our goal. We just need an additional helping hand. We ask that you give a donation to our cause, even if it is simply $1.00. Each individual dollar gets us closer to achieving this dream. So today we ask that you throw away $1.00… In our direction.

How many times in life have you thrown away $1.00 and never thought twice? Today we ask you to do just that. We are hoping to open a bar. Economy being what it is we do not have the funding for it at the present time. The bar we are looking into requires a $50,000 down payment. We have raised a total of $17,352 so far, but still have a ways to go. The bar, once we get it open, is going to be a comfortable and exciting establishment. We plan to offer many different forms of entertainment including: Karaoke, Bands, card/pool/dart tournaments, live contests and pageants, competitions of many kinds and even the occasional mud/jello wrestling. As in other words a bar that is fun and entertaining for all. Our community needs something like this desperately. This is our dream and has been for many years, just as you have had dreams too. We are so close to achieving our goal. We just need an additional helping hand. We ask that you give a donation to our cause, even if it is simply $1.00. Each individual dollar gets us closer to achieving this dream. So today we ask that you throw away $1.00… In our direction.

How many times in life have you thrown away $1.00 and never thought twice? Today we ask you to do just that. We are hoping to open a bar. Economy being what it is we do not have the funding for it at the present time. The bar we are looking into requires a $50,000 down payment. We have raised a total of $17,352 so far, but still have a ways to go. The bar, once we get it open, is going to be a comfortable and exciting establishment. We plan to offer many different forms of entertainment including: Karaoke, Bands, card/pool/dart tournaments, live contests and pageants, competitions of many kinds and even the occasional mud/jello wrestling. As in other words a bar that is fun and entertaining for all. Our community needs something like this desperately. This is our dream and has been for many years, just as you have had dreams too. We are so close to achieving our goal. We just need an additional helping hand. We ask that you give a donation to our cause, even if it is simply $1.00. Each individual dollar gets us closer to achieving this dream. So today we ask that you throw away $1.00… In our direction.

How many times in life have you thrown away $1.00 and never thought twice? Today we ask you to do just that. We are hoping to open a bar. Economy being what it is we do not have the funding for it at the present time. The bar we are looking into requires a $50,000 down payment. We have raised a total of $17,352 so far, but still have a ways to go. The bar, once we get it open, is going to be a comfortable and exciting establishment. We plan to offer many different forms of entertainment including: Karaoke, Bands, card/pool/dart tournaments, live contests and pageants, competitions of many kinds and even the occasional mud/jello wrestling. As in other words a bar that is fun and entertaining for all. Our community needs something like this desperately. This is our dream and has been for many years, just as you have had dreams too. We are so close to achieving our goal. We just need an additional helping hand. We ask that you give a donation to our cause, even if it is simply $1.00. Each individual dollar gets us closer to achieving this dream. So today we ask that you throw away $1.00… In our direction.

How many times in life have you thrown away $1.00 and never thought twice? Today we ask you to do just that. We are hoping to open a bar. Economy being what it is we do not have the funding for it at the present time. The bar we are looking into requires a $50,000 down payment. We have raised a total of $17,352 so far, but still have a ways to go. The bar, once we get it open, is going to be a comfortable and exciting establishment. We plan to offer many different forms of entertainment including: Karaoke, Bands, card/pool/dart tournaments, live contests and pageants, competitions of many kinds and even the occasional mud/jello wrestling. As in other words a bar that is fun and entertaining for all. Our community needs something like this desperately. This is our dream and has been for many years, just as you have had dreams too. We are so close to achieving our goal. We just need an additional helping hand. We ask that you give a donation to our cause, even if it is simply $1.00. Each individual dollar gets us closer to achieving this dream. So today we ask that you throw away $1.00… In our direction.

You don't know me. Maybe you never will. But you will never meet a more grateful person to shower blessings upon you after you have helped. It is indeed more blessed to give than to receive. You never know when you might be entertaining and assisting an angel. I know your help to me will be a blessing to you.

After prostate cancer radiation, recurring depression, and Meniere's disease, I need new help. Looking to do some charity work. Would like to buy a small SUV cheap, like Nissan Xterra. Nothing extravagant. I am a published poet and would gladly create any poetry any donor would like, be it for new birth, birthday, wedding, inspiration, courtship/proposal. You donation would be a great blessing. Thank you. Thank you. And thank you.

I am a 32 year old working mom of three beautiful children and I have the most wonderful husband anyone could ask for. We have the perfect mid-west life. We both work full time (and enjoy what we do), have a nice home, we're able to afford some luxuries in life although in moderation, that is enough for me. I enjoy cooking, and entertaining in my time off from work, and spending family time with my kids, parents, and neighbors. My children are Jordon (age 13), Logan (age 10), and Brianna (age 9). The kids are active in sports, and in our small community we are well known, and frequently can be seen volunteering at community events, church, and our local high school, of which we are both alumni. I live less than two miles from the home I grew up in. Sounds perfect if you ask me.

On February 18th, 2011 our son Logan (age 10) was diagnosed with a large brain tumor. He was not having many symptoms only occasional headaches. I was concerned that he may have been developing migraines and so I took him to see our family physician. His physical exam was normal including a rather thorough neurological exam. Dr. Arntz agreed with my initial thought and prescribed him some migraine medication. What a relief! He asked us to get a CT scan of Logan's head only as a precaution and he even stated that he didn't think there was any real concern, just a precaution. 5 days later, we were heading to the University of Michigan; Mott's childrens hospital because his precautionary CT scan had confirmed the worst for us. A 6 cm brain tumor in the posterior fossa of Logan's brain. Causing the cerebral spinal fluid to back up and create pressure in his head (hence the headaches).

Before leaving the house for the hospital we gave Logan a brief description of the problem, and explained to him that we didn't know what was going to happen next but we were going to the hospital to find out. You could see the worry on him but he was tough, shrugged his shoulders and said, "Well, I guess I better call it something, I think I'll name it Steve." So off we went, notifying family on the way to the hospital, and completely sick to my stomach.

Three days later we would embark on the scariest days of my life. Logan was promptly scheduled for surgery the following Monday and we were told there was a high probability that the tumor was cancerous. Dr. Cormac Maher performed 14 hours of brain surgery on Logan on Monday February 21st, and confirmed our fears that Logan indeed had a cancerous brain tumor called medulloblastoma. Then more bad news the post operative MRI showed that they had been able to remove all of the tumor and Logan would need more surgery. The next day he underwent another 6 hours of brain surgery. We caught it early but based on where the tumor sat he may not be able to talk or walk normally for 3-6 months. Lucky for us he talks and walks very well all things considered. But there has been radiation therapy and chemo therapy will continue until February or March of next year. There is a 75-80% chance of survivability, I feel blessed with those odds.

Logan is doing very well but this situation has put an incredible financial burden on us. I am falling behind on bills and need help. Andy is working constantly and I even started a second job on the weekends to try to help supplement the lost income from prescriptions, gas to and from the hospital, and just having to take time off work for appointments and Logan's sick days... I don't know what else to do. The banks have tried thankfully to work with us but our circumstance is not going to change for quite awhile longer. Our family's do not have a lot of money, and have already tried to help so much that I think it may be putting a strain on them as well. The church sends gas cards occasionally but there is just not enough to keep us going for the next year.

Here' s the kicker, Logan started his own Relay for Life team. I had taken him to a local expo about 3 weeks after he had been discharged from the hospital because I thought it would be good exercise for him to walk around and there would be lot's to look at, and there was a booth for the American Cancer Society. He walked up to the lady at the booth and he said " How old do you have to be to have a team?" She signed him up on the spot. Logan Bailey's Super Survivors have raised $8300.00 for the American Cancer Society! He's only a little more than $1600.00 away from his goal of raising $10000.00 for the Relay for Life. We've held auctions, bake sales, and concerts. It's been a wonderful distraction for him and he is super excited about reaching that fund-raising goal. We have asked our friends to contribute to his goals in lieu of giving us personal financial assistance. It's more important to me that his endeavors to do more for others, are successful.

We cannot change Logan's circumstance. He will always be a brain cancer survivor, and I will forever be a medullo-mom. But, if we can make this even minutely easier for others having to face it after us then we will do it. Logan donated "Steve the brain tumor" to medical research and he volunteered to participate in a medical research trial for his treatments. We hope that the money raised for the American Cancer Society will make a difference in research and support for anyone suffering with a cancer diagnosis. We hope that the research will make the work of wonderful, selfless, people like Dr. Maher and his team easier and more successful. If I had been diagnosed with this same type of cancer at the age of ten it would have been a terminal diagnosis... the research is working!!

I need help, I need financial help for my family so that we can stop the worrying over finances and concentrate on bringing our entire family through this successfully looking at it in a positive light and remembering that we did it with hearts full of love and with others in mind. Logan is a truly remarkable child and I am so proud of him. I anxiously await your response Thank you for your consideration.

Logan Bailey's Biggest Fan!!

Updates: September 11, 2011 - I have been able to get a part-time job which is good news, but the rest is just about the same. Thank you for your help Malum Designs
and Pete B.
Since my previous posts have yielded only four donations over the last five months I thought I would try this approach. My financial problems are quite real. If you find my fable entertaining please send a small donation.
- Fortuna vitrea est, tum cum splendet frangitur -

The Grasshopper and the Ant
A Classic retold by Joseph the Beggar King
Part One

Once upon a time, not so very long ago, there were two friends, the Grasshopper and the Ant. Why these two became friends is a bit of a mystery. The Grasshopper was a dreamer and a drifter. The Ant was a believer and an achiever.

In school the Grasshopper would look out the window without thought and only learned the subjects he found interesting. Sometimes he would fall asleep in Math class, other times when a angry teacher would jump him with a pop question he would give the correct answer in way that would confound them.

The Ant was a teachers dream, he soaked up every subject the system taught him, gave the correct answers in the correct way and got straight A s. He would delight his Math teacher by doing compound interest in his head. The Ant believed that what they taught him would help him succeed and was very completive. After graduating High School the Ant got an Academic Scholarship and the Grasshopper got a Pell Grant.

Within four years the Ant got two BS degrees in Business Management and Engineering. The Grasshopper dropped out after the first year. He went to live with the Rainbow Tribe for a few years. On the way to the bus station he found an old fiddle in a trash pile along the road and when he got station he was able to panhandle his bus fare. That was the Grasshoppers first beg.

The Ant took the College like a fish to water. During open Rush some Greeks invite him to be a brother in their Fraternity. He earned his dues by being the Frat Houses Accountant and made beer money by writing term papers. One day while visiting the Tri Deltas he watches the girls play volleyball and is amazed that even though they are playing a vigorous game not one of them breaks a sweat. It is there he meets the girl of his dreams, Polly Fishbane.

While the Grasshopper was living with the Rainbow Tribe he never meets the girl of his dreams, but it does not really matter too much because they believe in Free Love. So free, in fact, that after what you might call the Honeymoon he found himself getting a little bored with it. From the Rainbow Tribe he learns to live off the fat of country and from his new friend, Buffalo with Runs, he learns to live off the land. Buffalo with Runs was an very old Indian that was adopted by the tribe. He taught the Grasshopper what wild plants were safe to eat or use for medicines. He showed him how to set traps and hunt small game. Then, during one winter Gathering four people froze to dead because they were too stoned to come in out of the cold. The Grasshopper became very sad and hopped away.

The Ant is recruited by a Aerospace firm even before he graduated college and goes to work on the Apollo Program. He and his new wife Polly loved the Florida sunshine and settle down to start the American Dream. They decide to have two and half children. Even though the third kid looked a bit odd the Ant loved him as only a father can. With easy money down and mortgage tax deductions compliments of Uncle Sam, they get a house with a two car garage. Next they get two cars and the Rat Race is on. The Ant loves it! Working on the Apollo Program is more than a job, it is being part of history. Polly loves it! Raising their kids and Keeping up of with the Jones. She starts selling Avon products on the side. The Ant buys the best bass boat in the neighborhood, but only uses it once a year because he too busy working. He sets up his retirement funds and a small stock portfolio. Life is Good!

After leaving the Rainbow Tribe the Grasshopper panhandles his way across the country. He sets up in parks and subways where he pretends to play his fiddle while selling jewelry made of deer anthers and beads. The noise he makes with his fiddle sounds like a cat being killed and people give him money just to make him stop. Before the Cops run him off, the Grasshopper usually made enough in one day of begging to cover his needs for the week. When he is hungry he goes to a Soup Kitchen and when he needs clothing there are the Sharing Centers. Every now and then he lets some good hearted woman try to save him. Life is Good and he hops away.

The Apollo Program ends and the new Shuttle program does not start for a couple of years. The Aerospace company were the Ant works at does not win any of the new bids. They offer him a job in California at 20% less of his salary. Polly and the kids are in a rage. Nobody wants to move and leave their friends. The Ant sells his house at a loss because the real estate market in flooded by the laid offs. The one car and the boat are reprocessed. He sells off his stock portfolio for the down payment on the new house in California and even though money is tight the Ant decides to take the family on a short vacation to Key West to uplift their spirits. He finds the Grasshopper selling deer antler jewelry at the Front Street Market. While Polly and the kids go shopping, he and Grasshopper catch up and have a couple of beers. The Ant tells his friend about the laid offs and the move. The Grasshopper asks him - Are you Happy - ? The Ant says - Yes -. His friend says, - Good - . They watch the sunset and see a green flash on the horizon.
To be continue.

I'm not just begging for money and giving nothing in return, I have created a slightly entertaining cyber panhandling site, AintToProudToBeg.com, you can visit and read through to give to give to our online group of beggars if you feel like it. We're not on the street or anything but we could use some extra walking around money if you feel like sparing it and you find our online begging presentation worthy of buck! You can go to www.AintToProudToBeg.com or just use the Paypal email listed here! It never hurts to ask!