It's Movember. Just gimme a mo ok?

What a month it’s been. So big that it’s taken me a couple of weeks to reflect on it. To paraphrase Hamilton Holt, “Nothing worthwhile grows easily”. This sure wasn’t easy, but Movember was a worthwhile cause and an amazing experience. I’ve met men who had tried growing a mo in the past, and a woman who supported the cause, but not on her husband’s face. I’ve raised the topics of prostate cancer and depression, and got people, including myself, talking about their own experiences with these illnesses. I’ve raised $1,020 in donations. And I’ve committed to keeping a daily blog.

Thank you to all my friends and family who have supported me and thanks to ‘mho’ for challenging me to do it in the first place. The biggest thanks goes to my very patient and supportive partner who put up with me taking photos of myself every day instead of shaving. She even took a lot of the photos for me. At the end of it all, she photographed me taking the shave we’d been long awaiting, then said, “I don’t mind if you do it again next year.”