Moto Guzzi Winner!!

May Day 2013, DENVER – Some days are life changing. The day Pheap Seng was diagnosed with breast cancer was one of them. December 20^th was another. That’s the day My Life @ SPEED posted my first article (https://mylifeatspeed.com/archives/18801) and many of you responded with donations. You gave nearly $6000 to help pay for her treatment! Today, May 1^st 2013 is another. This is the day we draw a name and give that lucky someone a custom built Moto Guzzi Eldorado.

Here in Denver, we are experiencing some unseasonably beautiful weather. I thought I’d take the opportunity to bond with my unsuspecting daughter and change someone’s life. Let me back up a bit.

As I fumbled around the house this morning looking for my coffee, I happened to notice a very nice glass vase that my wife uses for Christmas candy. It’s empty now and I’ve nearly smashed it to smithereens a dozen time since Christmas throwing the ball for Nox, our OCB Boston mix. (Obsessive Compulsive Ball-chaser) Suddenly, a brilliant idea!

It seemed a good idea to put that vase to use so I got a sharpie, a roll of scotch tape, a stack of pink index cards and cut them into strips. I wrote everyone’s name on the strips and taped them shut. I put them in that Christmas jar. I waited.

Enter the unsuspecting daughter.

I grabbed my high tech video equipment, an umbrella drink and a microphone and we headed to the back yard for a multimedia extravaganza!

What you see is the live and uncut, unedited version of the winner of the soon-to-be, custom built Pheap fund, Moto Guzzi Eldorado. Pheap is currently in Singapore for 6 more weeks undergoing chemo and they send their gratitude for your donations, your thoughts, words of encouragement, prayers and well wishes.

And from Sovann Seng, a personal note to all of you that helped his wife Pheap with your generous donation.

DEAR RESPECT DONORS AND FRIENDS,
Greeting from Phnom Penh, Cambodia! On be haft of my family, we would like to say thank you and show our deepest appreciation for your generosity support to donate your financial by giving sacrificially to help out Pheap’s treatment for her breast cancer. I am humble to update you about Pheap’s treatment process and health: Phase I (Chemotherapy 4 times every 3 weeks), Surgery (Mastectomy and axillary clearance), and Phase II (Chemotherapy 12 times weekly). The Phase I and Surgery was finished and successful and now she is on the Phase II already finished second chemo therefore 10 more to go but the side effect is so strong last week she need to delay the chemo and hopefully she can continue this week. In spite of the challenge we have faced, we feel bless because all of you, mylife@SPEED, and Ray Roske to help us fight to win this battle.
May the Lord bless you back 100 times of what you do to help us.
Best Regards,
SOVANN SENG

Sovann and Pheap with their children after Pheap’s treatment for breast cancer.

Ray Roske

Back in last-century grade school, Ray Roske was sent to detention and wrote a satirical story for a substitute English teacher about an imaginary Polish motocross star named Haluska Palushka for his punishment. He did so assuming he'd get suspended and earn a free pass home for the day. Instead, he was brought before the class as a model student and falsely accused of being an example of both repentance and fine creative writing. Years later, in a millenium contest sponsored by the Washington Post, he again fooled everyone by writing one hundred words about a bowling trophy and earned top spot in the January 1, 2000 editio. Again, he was told by a Post editor that he was a writer. Since that time he has kept his head down, selling software he's never used in an industry hes never worked, writing occasionally for Open Salon and Examiner.com. He's hoping no one figures out that he really he has no idea what he's doing. An opportunity to contribute to My Life @ Speed began with unexpected 2012 PPIHC press credentials from Examiner.com, a borrowed Ducati Multistrada and an unlikely introduction and phone call from Greg Tracy. Hopefully they're all too busy here to notice.