YourHub.com community journalist Brendan Leonard shaved his head at the Bald is Beautiful event in solidarity with a friend. Here's an excerpt from his blog: "Hodgkin's lymphoma is a cancer that attacks the lymph system, as I learned in my buddy Jarrett's e-mail on April 21. My buddy has it, and he shouldn't. No one should get cancer, right? Before April, I didn't have much experience with cancer, except that I knew a lot of people got it, and I thought we should devote more money to finding out what causes it. I raised $115, mostly at my office, for the Andre Center for Breast Cancer Education and Navigation, then went and got my six inches of hair publicly shorn on June 29 at the Rock Bottom Brewery on the 16th Street Mall in Denver. Then I sent Jarrett a photo of a newly bald me, asking if I could be added to the team. I received a response Sunday affirming my new teammate status. This is how we fight lymphoma: An almost fanatical devotion to optimism, followed by a lot of medical stuff. And shaving our heads."

Larkspur blogger Mick Rule's hair was pretty short, but he got it shaved anyway. Here's an excerpt from his blog:

"Brendan, (Brighton blogger) Bill ( Boucher), and I all lost our locks. Actually, Brendan had by far the most to lose, but he took the whole matter quite stoically. I thought he looked like Lance Armstrong afterward. I'm thinking I resemble an older, skinnier, with a beard, Andre Agassi. Kinda sexy, really. And it's much cooler under the ol' hardhat I wear while working."

This wasn't the first time under the shears for a good cause for Brighton blogger Bill Boucher, but it caused him to ponder the American charitable way in this excerpt from his blog:

"I believe another factor in this situation is the desire for every red-blooded American to get the maximum bang for his buck.

'Sure, I'll donate to your charity, but first I want you to walk four miles around the neighborhood.'

This probably isn't the real thought process, but in a time when so many people are in need, it never hurts to differentiate one charity from another by tying the charities to unique events. We walk, we ride, we cut our hair off, we grow our hair long, and then we cut it off again and donate the hair itself, all in the name of charity. In addition to adding variety to the ways we give, this also gives people who have little else to give a chance to give maybe the only things they have to give - themselves."

Brendan's blog -- denver.yourhub.com/~whatsgoingon

Mick's blog -- denver.yourhub.com/~rampartmicksidlethoughts

Bill's blog -- denver.yourhub.com/~billsbunchobsblog