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Because it's important

Most of the short life of this blog has been consisted of me doing two things: ranting and being a smart-arse. Which is good. It's what I do. This post is different. Suck it up.

While doing a google search for more info on prostate cancer I stumbled upon a blog about one NZ man's journey as he deals with prostate cancer. It is honest, clear, simple, thorough and informative. Above all, it's incredibly, almost brutally, personal. I couldn't stop reading it.

The whole website is wonderfully informative - filled with links, news stories, survivor stories, treatment and dietary advice, ethnic issues and a load of other information. Prostate cancer claims the lives of so many NZ men and it's important to have blogs like that which inform people in such a simple way. The author exposes so much. It's kinda breathtaking.

Why am I telling you this? While reading it I was shocked to find that I knew the author of this blog. His name is Jim Tucker and he taught me how to write. His voice still haunts me whenever I type out a badly worded sentence (this is alarmingly often). I will be forever grateful to him for accepting me in his Journalism course while I was still a wildly arrogant, unconfident, shit-for-brains kid and giving me the foundation to achieve my childhood dream of becoming a storyteller. He's currently the journalism tutor at Whitireia. So, here's to you, Mr Tucker. My small shout-out to the man who taught me how to "fill in the spaces between the ads" in newspapers.

Now, back to the regularly scheduled snark and rant.