Living Large In Our Little House

Friends of Living Large,

Would you please hop over to The Literary Lab and vote for The Writer's Emergency Assistance Fund? This blog will give a grant to the char­ity with the most votes this week. (The vot­ing box is in the upper right hand cor­ner of the blog).

It only takes less than 30 sec­onds to vote, you need not be a writer (only a com­pas­sion­ate soul, which I know there are many here!) and your vote might make the dif­fer­ence of some­one being able to stay in their home, or receive med­ical care.

The Writer's Emergency Assistance Fund is a cause I have sup­ported because I have seen the tremen­dous dif­fer­ence it can make in my col­leagues lives. They give grants to writ­ers who have had cat­a­strophic ill­ness that pre­vents them from working.

As you know, for most writ­ers, it is a hand-to-mouth pro­fes­sion. Writers strug­gle daily with com­ing up with money for health insur­ance, many don't have the lux­ury of car­ry­ing dis­abil­ity insur­ance.  The Writer's Emergency Assistance Fund has given grants to elderly writ­ers strug­gling with med­ical expenses, as well as to sin­gle moth­ers who have had to deal with life threat­en­ing dis­eases of their children.

The head of the board reported that requests for assis­tance by writ­ers need­ing emer­gency grants has exploded 500 per­cent in the past year.

Just one click of your mouse might help one of them.…

Thank you, friends.