Welcome to OftenAwesome.org, We are proud to present information that we hope will further the fight against ALS.

Go Army!

Often Awesome was started in mid-2009 in support of Tim LaFollette, a local musician and our friend, who was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease). At least five generations of Tim's family have now lived with and died from this disease. During his illness, Tim was adament that he wanted to help raise awareness for this condition, which, while there have been some more recent breakthroughs in research, has had little change in the pallative treaments options since both his grandmother and mother passed away from it in 1982. Even though he eventually was completely bound to his bed and eventually forced to use an eye gaze computer to communicate, Tim was able to discuss his decline with humor and truthfullness. In additional, the members of the OA Army, assisting Tim in whatever area they could, give you faith in what humanity can do as the community provided support to Tim to allow him to both stay at home and in Greensboro during the duration of his illness. The movement that started as a small group of friends, morphed into more than a thousand members and included a care team, benefit shows, an award winning web series and even merchandise.

On August 23rd, 2011, Tim passed away peacefully at home with family, friends and caregivers by his side. As of January 2012, we are actively working to launch Often Awesome into a non-profit organization that helps others impacted by ALS while we continue to fight for treatments and a cure.. We are excited about these changes and look forward to making Often Awesome a stronger organization in 2012.