An End of Summer Stroll Through The Fundraising for Breakfast Police Blotter
Looking back on a summer of Fundraising for Breakfast
Last week’s review of Benjamin Franklin’s Last Bet led to some terrific book recommendations by you waffle-eaters. Click around below and you’ll find something to read poolside over the upcoming Labor Day weekend:
The Devil all The Time by Donald Ray Pollack
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
None of this is True by Lisa Jewell
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Circe by Madeline Miller
Never Enough: From Barista to Billionaire by Andrew Wilkinson
Horse: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks.
Speaking of what we’re all reading, my very good friend Susan (real name, real person) introduced me to her hometown paper’s police blotter and you’ve got to see it! Whoever writes this stuff for the East Aurora Advertiser in upstate New York deserves a steak dinner.
Some of my favorites below:
That was fun.
So, you guys, we’ve had a good summer around here and a bit of an uptick in traffic around these parts of late. Which is always encouraging to see.
By way of introduction to this site (or re-introduction if you’ve been around the block with me this summer), below are summaries of what we’ve been up to via a brand new feature: the Fundraising for Breakfast Police Blotter. If any snitch out there ever calls the cops on this Substack, I TOTALLY expect it to be published in Susan’s hometown paper as written below:
May 13: My Mother Thinks You Should Ask Celebrities for Money
June 10: Raising Money From Nicholas Cage Will Be Harder Than You Think
July 8: Joey Chestnut Will Eat Your Fundraising Appeal for Breakfast
June 17: Help me Substack! I’m Being Bullied By a Teenage Fundraiser
June 24: Fine, I’ll Hire My Fundraising Bully. But Then What?
July 1: The Yellow Power Ranger Once Asked Me to Round Up For Charity
July 22: The Best Fundraising Advice You’ll Ever Get From A Driver’s Ed Instructor
July 29: GUEST POST: I Lived it! A Celebrity Helped My Organization Fundraise
August 5: There’s Only Two Ways Off a Diving Board
Welcome to all who have just subscribed and thank you to those who keep coming back. This Substack started as a summer project and I look forward to keeping this Pepsi commercial rolling into the fall.
Look for another post the Tuesday after Labor Day, you beautiful people.
Hello, Kitty, you are 100% correct. It's WNY, home of the Bills (team motto: "Next year!" Or maybe "Wide right"), the best chicken wings in the world, and some of the nicest people you'll ever meet. Had Dan let me proof this before publishing, I would've corrected this egregious error. And now I'm thinking that maybe Josh Allen would like to donate to our organization. Dan, can you get on that?
Dan, my darling son, who calls his mother frequently, if not often: East Aurora is in Western New York, not Upstate New York. Hi, Susan!