1/6 This is a #thread about turning the most bitter of lemons into sweet lemonade, about believing in taking small steps to making big dreams come true.
I feel #grateful. I feel #empowered.
Read on and share in my happiness, a feeling that has a whole new meaning. I'll explain.
2/6 Bitter lemons: My husband’s death of pancreatic cancer on Nov. 1, 2017, 30 days after his diagnosis. He was 46. We had been together for almost 19 years. Our daughter was 8. His name was Mike Saucier, but his close friends called him Sauce.
3/6 A year ago, my good friends Tom and Andrea and I created The Sauce Foundation to raise money for scholarships at @Cronkite_ASU and pancreatic cancer research at @TGen. I didn’t know how to ask others for money (or help, for that matter), but I was willing to give it a try.
4/6 Here's where we are today: The Sauce Foundation has raised more than $50,000 in online and in-person donations—from a lemonade stand my daughter held around the corner from our house to a hike last month on my husband’s favorite trail in Phoenix. That's freakin' AMAZING!!
5/6 We celebrated at the beautiful @azsciencecenter last night, at an event honoring Arizona charities. I got to wear a pretty dress and sparkly shoes.
6/6 I am AMAZED at the generosity of friends and strangers, and HUMBLED by their belief in me and in the causes that The Sauce Foundation has embraced. Check us out and while you're at it, make your tax-deductible donation: thesaucefoundation.org.
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