Giveaway Winner Announced!

Drum roll, please!

(my favorite drummer)

I am happy to announce that Only a Movie is the winner of The Shroud. Please email (elsophie at gmail dot com) me your snail address and I will send you this wonderful book -- pronto!

I just discovered

an interview that was done by a really neat new website called SupportforSpecial Needs.com. The interview was conducted in early August with me and was used to promote the anthology My Baby Rides the Short Bus: The unabashedly human experience of raising kids with disabilities, in which I have an essay titled Small Victories. I simply forgot about it until tonight when I was visiting their site! You can read the interview HERE. 


Check out the website, too, especially if you have a child with special needs. I am struck by just how many resources there are out there and how much support is to be gained by our community.

Finally, you have one more day to fill out the questionnaire that will help me to place ads on my site geared toward products good for kids with special needs and their families. Even if you DON'T have a child with special healthcare needs, it's a demographic study and therefore really useful. There's nothing personal on it or that would compromise your security or reveal your identity. AND, if you leave a comment here of any kind, I'll enter you into the random drawing for my good friend Michael Meloan and his brother Steve's book The Shroud. I plan on announcing the winner on Friday morning.

Here's the link for the survey: CLICK

Here's the link for The Shroud's website: The Shroud

Oh, and here's the link for the interview with yours truly: Interview

How's that for shameless self-promotion?

Giveaway Reminder and Survey!

PLEASE, if you have a minute, click HERE and take the survey. Scroll down to my post on August 26th to learn more about it. Or click HERE.

And don't forget to leave a comment for a chance to win a copy of Mike and Steven Meloan's fascinating novel The Shroud.

Toodle - ooo!

Looking for survey-lovers and a giveaway!

I am looking into having advertisers, specifically for things pertaining to special needs parenting, on my site.

If you're a reader of this blog, you know I'm not the commercial type. If I run an ad, it's for something like books or old-fashioned candy, and I've made about $5.00 from those ads in the two years they've been running. But, this is different, a real opportunity to make some money AND have pretty cool companies featured over there on my humble right hand column.

In any case, I'd really appreciate you filling out this brief demographic survey that will help me to decide whether or not to even run the ads. Fill it out whether or not you're a parent of a special needs child, whether or not you're a parent at all.  If you have a minute and want to fill it out, well, I'd be much obliged. In fact, I'd be so obliged that I'll send one lucky person a copy of the book The Shroud, by my good friend and neighbor Michael Meloan and his brother Steven Meloan. The Shroud is "a science-adventure novel in the vein of Carl Sagan's Contact -- offering a compelling scientific backdrop, while exploring many of today's headline-making scientific, spiritual and ethical questions. The story has no sectarian agenda. At bottom, the message is one of decoupling spirituality from religious dogma, while better exploring the spiritual impulse with cutting edge technology."

Doesn't that sound interesting? I haven't read it yet, but I do look forward to talking to Mike every time I'm outside my house. We have the best sidewalk conversations, and I'm imagining this book to be nearly as good as a prolonged sidewalk chat and probably better.

Fill out the survey HERE. 

Leave a comment that you've done so and enter for your chance to win a copy of The Shroud. The winner will be announced in a week or so, so stay tuned!