I’ve known Robyn Campbell for several years. We first met each other through blogging and then she joined my online writing support group. Over the years, I’ve learned about her son who has Sturge-Weber syndrome. He’s constantly dealing with scary symptoms, tests, more tests. And she’s constantly dealing with making decisions between something with bad side effects and something else with bad side effects, or worse. As a parent, we want to fix our children.
What do you do when there is no fix?
Recently, Robyn decided to put together an anthology to
raise $ for the foundation Sturge-Weber Foundation that provides hope for the families of children who suffer from this disease. I
wanted to be a part of it.
To find out more, read Robyn’s post HERE.
As everyone wrote and revised and shared what they wrote, I
started a stressful teaching job. I felt like I wasn’t helping as much with the
anthology as I could have. Even with my busy schedule, I critiqued and was
impressed by quite a few authors’ pieces. The energy from everyone amazed me.
Finally the time arrived for the cover reveal.
At the same time, I began dealing with someone who had a personal crisis. I
thought of Robyn and her son many times over these weeks. I, too, often felt
powerless to help and felt like I had no idea if any decision I made was
actually the right decision. So much of my energy was turned inward.
I missed the cover reveal.
Slowly, the personal crisis seems to be ending. So here I
am.
I want to get the word out that there's a wonderful anthology
for children at a reasonable price in both Paperback and Kindle.
There’s
some nice artwork in there too. As you think about supporting charities as the
year ends, please buy this anthology and/or DONATE.
Pssst... my story has the magical island ship!
Amazon purchase details HERE.