SiscoVanilla Hits The Bricks

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Yesterday was the Making Strides Breast Cancer Walk at New York City's Central Park. The pink was prevalent within the greenery of Central Park as thousands walked to benefit the necessary cause of Breast Cancer Awareness. This was my second straight year walking with it being the first in trying to raise funds. As you can see in the picture above, the course is a little more than four miles starting at the 72nd Street Bandshell. The course goes North along the East side before wrapping around to the West side near 100th Street finishing back at the Bandshell. As you can see below, I put together a nice little walk before finally sitting down at the Dunkin on 74th and 2nd Avenue. A great time was had by all. Here are some images of some of the sights that I came across during the Breast Cancer Walk. As of the writing of this post, I was able to raise $723 dollars and my team, The Pink and Black Attack!!! raised a total of $1,260 dollars.  And speaking of...

Writing the article Everything That I Did After Losing My Job which was published by TheBillFold.com on October 2, 2018 made me re-evaluate where I am in my life. As many of you know, I'm on a mission to be Debt Free by 50. I'm 4 years from that goal and on the path to getting there. My next phase is to try to make a difference. I've started doing that with my fundraising efforts for the Making Strides Breast Cancer Walk. Donations can still be made: - My personal page with Making Strides Against Breast Cancer - My Facebook donation page I've also started participating in the efforts that Kiva.org undertakes. What is Kiva you might ask? I'll let Kiva speak for itself via their About Us webpage: Kiva is an international nonprofit, founded in 2005 and based in San Francisco, with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. We celebrate and support people looking to create a better future for themselves, their families and th...