Let me tell you about Travis Erwin.
Travis is a fellow writer-in-the-trenches, a fellow parent (his boys are 6 and 8), and a friend. I met him through Twitter and soon got sucked into his blog, especially when he posted the brutally honest, heart-melting story of when his son was born, and things went wrong.
On January 4th, Travis's house burned to the ground. Typically, he tweeted about it the same day. Now his family is temporarily living with parents, struggling to figure out what to do next and how to explain to the boys about lost Hotwheels, Christmas presents, and what happened to Captain Jack the turtle.
Everybody's been asking how they can help. Superstar authors Erica Orloff and Stephen Parrish have set up a website for donations to the family: you can buy a brick for Travis's family, and help get them going again.
Donations here: http://www.habitatfortravis.blogspot.com/
Or, Travis has asked for donations of Hotwheels or kid's books to go directly to his boys:
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If your post-Christmas, horrible-economy wallet can spare, or you have some books or Hotwheels lying around, please help!
5 comments:
Susan, I live over here in Germany but I'd like to go to amazon and buy him a gift certificate (I already contributed towards the house, yesterday).
Do you know how I could do that without having an email for him?
Hi JKB--
You rock! His email is on his blogger profile, here: Travis
Hi, Susan. I discussed the situation with my kids at snack time just now. They were devastated to hear about the boys losing their house and Christmas presents, so they made a plan to shop for Hotwheels and books tomorrow after school. I really feel for that family.
Wow, thanks, Cathy. I'm sure that will perk the boys up to receive some goodies in the mail from other kids!
Sounds like the perfect project for my son - he's got shelves of hotwheels! I'll see what he can pull together.
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