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The power of the web to change lives

Submitted by coach-chris on Sun, 14/02/2010 - 11:28am

It is interesting that while we live in a time when everyone seems to be creating masses of duplicate information, the success of a site like I Wrote this for You is in it's minimalist messages.

Relay for Life

Submitted by coach-chris on Mon, 16/11/2009 - 8:32am

When I checked my email this morning, I was moved to tears by this little gesture.

On November 6th, I put a post on my blog about the death of our guide dog Buddy, who had finally succumbed to lung cancer.

This morning I got this email with these photos from Sonya:

"These are a few pictures from the Relay f

Central Railway Station Sydney

Submitted by coach-chris on Thu, 08/10/2009 - 4:29pm

We just got back from Sydney at 3am this morning. We had been up there for business, and the trip was good, but man are we tired.

Ok, so it is partly my fault because we left Sydney at midnight, but what really took it out of us was the hotel we had stayed in the night before.

We had stayed in this hotel a few times before and it wasn't bad, so when we arrived at the hotel and were very kindly upgraded to a bigger room, it sounded good.

Memories of the Tsunami in Thailand

Submitted by coach-chris on Thu, 01/10/2009 - 5:34pm

As the relief teams from New Zealand, Australia and the US head for the Pacific in the wake of the latest Tsunami, I recall the last devastating tsunami as thought it was just the other day.

I was on holiday in Thailand a few weeks before the Boxing Day Tsunami of 2005.