April 2, 2016
Today, Sam would have turned 11 years old. For those of you who might be reading this for the first time, Samuel Alexander Jeffers was born on 4/2/2005. Suddenly, and out-of-the blue, on 9/20/2012 he was diagnosed with a brain tumor. On 10/20/2013 he died. Certainly a lot of things happened in those intervening years between Sam�s birth and death: some mundane; many truly spectacular, precious and cherished; and some ghastly and tragic. April 2nd, 2009-Sam's 4th birthday. He asked for a cow. Sam should have had many, many more years to his timeline. Many more opportunities to experience the mundane and spectacular alike. Instead, Sabrina and I now mark the passage of time with memories and �celebrate� unfulfilled or incomplete milestones. We continue to honor his name and celebrate his life and spread the gifts he gave us through our work at the Foundation that we established in his name, whose primary mission is to eradicate childhood cancers b...