In February 2008 I was given the news that I have stage 4 Breast Cancer. I decided that I wasn’t going to let this get me down . I would just do everything the doctors told me to do, and everything would be okay. I can see that you aren’t laughing yet. Let me explain something to you, it doesn’t matter how this turns out it is a life sentence for me, I will either be here on this earth with my family or I will be walking the streets of heaven with Jesus. Either way I win. The one thing that I did decide is that whatever time I have left on this earth I am going to have fun. I had been wanting to take the clown classes for a long time but they could never get enough people to enroll to have a class here in Seymour. Now this is where I believe God entered into this he gave those that were in the position of making the decisions the wisdom to say, you know maybe we don’t need 15 or 20 people to take this class, let’s see if we can maybe find one or two people out there that truly want to put a smile on someone else’s face. The clown classes are not about the person that is taking them they are about all of the people you will bring joy to once you are a clown. On March 22, 2009 with all of my family in attendance, which by the way I don’t think there was one of them that didn’t think I was loosing my mind, I became a member of the Giggles and More Chapter of Smiles Unlimited Universal Clown Ministry. We visit people in hospitals, nursing home and prisons and also do various charity events. Pat Prather is our moderator and if you would like to schedule an event you can contact her at (812)522-7119 or visit us at, www.gigglesandmore.tripod.com. I just know that I am having a ball I don’t always have good days but you can bet if I am feeling well and there is an opportunity to clown I will be there as Ta-Ta. Sometimes just applying the make-up turns what was a bad day into a good day. I think when you are dealing with cancer you need other distractions in your life so that you are not waking up everyday to just say, “well I have cancer and that is what I will dwell on today.”