Mark your calendars and register to attend the 2024 launch of the Hummingbird Ale, created in collaboration with Ales for ALS, ALS-TDI, and Starr Hill Brewery! This year's launch event will take place on Saturday, November 9, from 3-5pm at the Dairy Market location of...
This article, written by Jim and Peggy Plews-Ogan, was published by the University of Notre Dame's Center for Social Concerns and their Virtues and Vocations publication. You can view the original article online. On December 2, 2021, our lives cracked open. Jim was...
Peggy will soon publish her most recent scholarly article, entitled “Changing the paradigm: practical wisdom as true north in medical education”. It will appear in a special issue of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. In the article Peggy explores the...
The Hummingbird Fund is proud to be a co-sponsor of the upcoming documentary film screening of "Go On, Be Brave," presented by The Team Drea Foundation. The screening will take place on Saturday, September 23, at 7 p.m. at the Paramount Theater in Charlottesville, Va....
The Hummingbird Fund will partner with Starr Hill Brewery this August to raise money for ALS research. Starr Hill is brewing a “Hummingbird Ale” and hosting a release party on Saturday, August 5, at both the Crozet and Charlottesville tap rooms to celebrate this new...
Recently I took part in a Tim Lowry ALS panel for occupational therapy (OT) students. As panelists we answered many of the questions you might anticipate about how OT has improved our lives with ALS. I was happy to tell the students about pencil grips, rocker...
Tender soothing rain all night last night lingers unto morning like sweet tears to begin this day anew and whole. I did not grow up in a culture of sweet tears, the kind that flow gently down the cheek, as plainly and innocently as a smirk might linger while...
ALS is always a grim tale to tell, and to hear. Sorry. What if we could tell a parallel ALS tale that was the opposite of grim? I have an idea. Read on. ALS, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, is generally defined as a progressive, neurodegenerative illness with no...
In a recent essay published in the New York Times, Mary Pipher reveals her double life. Perhaps you remember Mary Pipher, PhD., as the best-selling author of Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls, and Women Rowing North. Or, maybe you remember her...
Once a week, I fill my pillbox. The box keeps me on track, especially since I swallow a rainbow of pills and capsules three times a day. You might think it impossible to forget whether you have swallowed 13 or 14 pills. Trust me, when it becomes a day-to-day routine,...
Today, we mark two years since our beloved Jim passed away. Our Plews-Ogan family, including Rowan and baby Phoebe, Erin and Hal, and Will and Monika, are gathering for the weekend as we will every year. This year, we’re in Minneapolis. The time together has given us...