Mattie Miracle Walk 2023 was a $131,249 success!

Mattie Miracle Cancer Foundation Promotional Video

Thank you for keeping Mattie's memory alive!

Dear Mattie Blog Readers,

It means a great deal to us that you take the time to write to us and to share your thoughts, feelings, and reflections on Mattie's battle and death. Your messages are very meaningful to us and help support us through very challenging times. To you we are forever grateful. As my readers know, I promised to write the blog for a year after Mattie's death, which would mean that I could technically stop writing on September 9, 2010. However, at the moment, I feel like our journey with grief still needs to be processed and fortunately I have a willing support network still committed to reading. Therefore, the blog continues on. If I should find the need to stop writing, I assure you I will give you advanced notice. In the mean time, thank you for reading, thank you for having the courage to share this journey with us, and most importantly thank you for keeping Mattie's memory alive.


As Mattie would say, Ooga Booga (meaning, I LOVE YOU)! Vicki and Peter



The Mattie Miracle Cancer Foundation celebrates its 7th anniversary!

The Mattie Miracle Cancer Foundation was created in the honor of Mattie.

We are a 501(c)(3) Public Charity. We are dedicated to increasing childhood cancer awareness, education, advocacy, research and psychosocial support services to children, their families and medical personnel. Children and their families will be supported throughout the cancer treatment journey, to ensure access to quality psychosocial and mental health care, and to enable children to cope with cancer so they can lead happy and productive lives. Please visit the website at: www.mattiemiracle.com and take some time to explore the site.

We have only gotten this far because of people like yourself, who have supported us through thick and thin. So thank you for your continued support and caring, and remember:

.... Let's Make the Miracle Happen and Stomp Out Childhood Cancer!

A Remembrance Video of Mattie

November 7, 2020

Saturday, November 7, 2020

Saturday, November 7, 2020

Tonight's picture was taken in November of 2007. Like many other weekends, we took Mattie for a walk on Roosevelt Island. As you can see, I was holding a big leaf in my hand. Clearly something Mattie found along our journey and wanted to bring back home with us. The pile we had outside our deck of the found pieces of nature was enormous! 


Quote of the day: Today's coronavirus update from Johns Hopkins.

  • number of people diagnosed with the virus: 9,816,076
  • number of people who died from the virus: 236,789

I took this photo of our neighbor's house today! They always decorate their house for the season! They just took down their Halloween display and today, the Turkey came out! Of course the banner is new for 2020..... as it reflects our new way of communicating with each other thanks to our COVID lockdowns. 
In October of 2019, a filming crew came to our home to interview us about our psychosocial work with childhood cancer. It turns out that the producer completed the video (which highlights many other families and professionals) and is premiering it tonight by invitation only. So we will be tuned in from 7-9pm. Naturally I am hoping it captures the essence of our message and work. 
The flyer about the premiere. I did visit the production's website, and it is still under construction:

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