Casie       Shimansky

We should be bald today, but due to COVID-19 Shave Day has been postponed. Still, there are a lot of reasons to be positive and keep going.

Why I love Headbands of Hope, and all the good they're doing for kid's battling cancer and other illnesses.

What did my husband think when I told him I was going to go BALD?

How Cisco enables me to maximize my fundraising efforts for St. Baldrick's & children's cancer research - and how YOU can help!

10 years of volunteering and fundraising with the St. Baldricks Foundation for children's cancer research.

Casie Shimansky's FlBlogCon 2019 Session • Fundraising Through Social Storytelling and the story behind Team Live Out Loud.

The story behind my DIY Rufio Halloween costume, and the bracelet that pulled it all together.

"Women are supposed to have long hair" - well, this one doesn't and it may just be my superpower.

A week of awesome: Cisco is #1 World's Best Workplace, GHC19 is inthe book, and I've been named a Cisco Bridge Award winner!

At almost 30, I was laid off - nothing was going according to plan. Years later, opportunity would knock & my life at Cisco would begin.

What it took to get back on Tirosint and, hopefully, back to an optimized thyroid.

The Story of Kenobi's Got'cha Day and how the stars aligned to bring this fun-loving, adventurous pup in to our lives.

There have been 29 days between me and the moment my 5” of rainbow mowhawk’d hair fell to the stage floor at Captain Hiram's during Indian River's 2019 St. B...

I left our 2012 St. Baldrick's event having made a promise. It was a promise I shared with Sean a few days later as I still sat high on Cloud 9 of another su...

When I close my eyes and take myself back to the week leading up to April 10, 2004 – it still feels impossible that it happened to us. And then the morning c...

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson 1. KNIGHTED! When I said I wanted to start a St. Baldrick's team in...

Today, March 24th, officially marks ONE. YEAR. BALD. 😳 When the sun finally rose on that morning, 365 days ago, I had no idea what to expect. And, yes, tha...

I can't fly. Lasers don't shoot out of my eyes. I can't control the weather or your mind. I have no unusual muscular strength. I sometimes walk fast, but tha...

In 2004 my sister died. It was sudden. It was tragic. It was unexpected. It was the brutal, gut-wrenching discovery late one night at a hospital in Gainesvil...

A long, long time ago...I started a blog. In fact, the first blog I ever started was fresh out of high school after I missed writing my Dave Barry-esque colu...