Marc Shepanek is a swing (and other) dance teacher in the Washington DC area, and a terrific guy. He's recently been sick with lymphoma, and though doing well under treatment, really needs a lift to the heart.

A couple of weeks ago Marc was to have been teaching nearby at a contra/swing/tango weekend with his partner, Ellen Engle, but he was having chemotherapy. Ellen taught alone, and suggested to all Marc's students and fans attending the workshops that we send, and have other people send him postcards – preferably from far away places and unsigned, or signed by people Marc doesn't even know. She thinks receiving this flood of weird postcards would cheer him up enormously.

I thought, "Well, there's this bunch of far-flung folk I could ask to do this……"

One thing Marc stresses in his extremely funny and enjoyable classes is taking care of your partner. And while dancing if you goof up, he invites you not to take the blame yourself but you can always say "Marc made a mistake".

Marc is a psychologist and chief of aerospace medicine at NASA headquarters in Washington DC. His work is with enabling human missions to extreme environments, in particular interplanetary exploration. He studies group dynamics, adaptation to isolation and positive psychology.

If anyone would like to send him a postcard, please send it to:

Marc Shepanek
Flying Feet Enterprises
4408 Faraday Pl NW
Washington DC 20016
USA

Thank you   --Linda