Holiday Letters
2025 Kristen Ann Carr Fund Holiday Letter
Dear Friends, As the days grow shorter, we find ourselves reflecting on a year marked by profound loss, deep gratitude, and meaningful progress. It has now been almost one year since we lost Sasha Carr, our co-founder, board member, daughter, sister, mother, and friend. Her commitment to compassion, dignity, and patient-centered care remains woven into…
Read More2022 Kristen Ann Carr Fund Holiday Letter
Dear Friends, Sarcoma claimed Kristen’s life within two years of diagnosis. It was in that short window of time that Kristen‘s amazing legacy began – The Kristen Ann Carr Fund – responding with heart and generosity toward others going through a similar battle. This kindness was met with determination and fierce loyalty by her family,…
Read More2021 Kristen Ann Carr Fund Holiday Letter
Dear Friends, We hope this holiday season finds you and your family in good health and great spirits. The last two years have reinforced the essential purpose and importance of gathering with family and friends which coincides with Kristen’s philosophy of “I want to live my life in the moment with the people I love.” …
Read More2019 Kristen Ann Carr Fund Holiday Letter
Dear Family, Friends, Colleagues and Supporters, Happy Holidays to all! We are heading into our 27th year in our fight against sarcoma. All those years ago Kristen asked Dr. Murray Brennan, her physician and then chief of surgery at MSKCC and a sarcoma expert, “what do you need”? Murray responded that we need surgeons and…
Read More2018 Kristen Ann Carr Fund Holiday Letter
Dear Friends, This letter is our annual message to those who have, for the past 25 years, been our collaborators in creating The Kristen Ann Carr Fund. The letter serves as a report on what we’re planning, a compilation of memories of what’s already been done in Kristen’s name, and a description and assessment…
Read More2017 Kristen Ann Carr Fund Holiday Letter
December 2017 Dear friends, The 1992 holiday season found us at our lowest point . Kristen’s illness had grown much worse. We had yet to understand that we were trying to stop a locomotive with our bare hands. By the first week of January 1993, about all we knew was an urgent need to keep…
Read MoreHoliday Letter 2011
Dear Friends, This year, the trustees of the Kristen Ann Carr Fund re-learned what lives are really all about, through the wonder of Sasha’s first child, Weston Kristof Carr. Wes reminds us, every day, what an individual life means, how irreplaceable it is, and how beautiful. Individual lives are what the Kristen Ann Carr Fund’s…
Read More1994 Kristen Ann Carr Fund Holiday Letter
Dear Friends, It has been almost two years since we lost Kristen, which seems like something that happened yesterday and at the same time, a story from another place and time. As her family, we now know that you don’t “recover” from such a death, nor do you “get used to it.” Sadly, you do…
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