Comments on: Andrea Coller

By: Julie

Julie — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:55:05 +0000

Matt, thanks for pointing me toward this wrenching, awe-inspiring piece of writing. I’m so sorry for the loss to all the people who loved Andrea–and, of course, for what Andrea never had the chance to do, experience, and write about.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Mon, 05 May 2008 02:05:39 +0000

Thank you for this, Matt … our group means the world to me and it will never be quite the same without Andrea. I’m with K, we need facial tattoos, pronto.

By: Ethan

Ethan — Sat, 03 May 2008 13:06:42 +0000

Matt,

I don’t think we’ve met, but I’m part of the band Pesky J. Nixon, we routinely played with Andrea, more pertinent to this outside of music I was a good friend of Andrea’s. Thank you for the post. The writing group meant so much to Andrea, and I”m not speaking with anymore authority than seeing her get excited days before you all met.

Tom, I don’t yet know what PACE is going to do, but the SAMFund is putting together an Andrea Coller Memorial Grant. The SAMFund is a foundation that raises money to help young adult cancer survivors as they move back into the world post treatment. If you want to learn more about the organization it is online at http://www.thesamfund.org

By: Tom Stokowski

Tom Stokowski — Fri, 02 May 2008 20:29:47 +0000

Played a Pace a few times with Greg Alexander, Eric and so many others that Andrea brought together to share our individual talents. She will be missed.

Maybe PACE could established some sort of permanence to Andrea for all her hard work. Maybe a marker on the side walk , a bench to sit outside anything like that would be nice.

I hope the open mike continues, It is hard for me to think that she would not have wanted to see it go on.

By: kris

kris — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:04:03 +0000

Matt, as usual, that was perfect.

Let’s start planning those face tattoos.