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Jack Gryffon

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About Me

I've been writing children's books since my son, Benjamin, was born. My first published work, Clarence: How a Cricket Found His Way, was recently released through Windstorm Creative. It is currently available direct from the publisher and will soon be available from Amazon.com. My publisher is also working diligently to make it available at your local brick-and-mortar bookstore.

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As all of you know, I have always had a desire to help children. This is what made me first want to write children's books and later it was this same desire that pointed me toward a future career in children's medicine. While I think my books must benefit some children somewhere, and my future career as a pediatric heart surgeon will surely benefit children in a real way, at present I am confronted with children in great need that I know can be helped right now with just a small allocation of our resources.If you have never heard of The Smile Train , it is a wonderful organization that provides free surgery to children with cleft lip and palate. This is a cause that is very close to us as a family. A member of our extended family has experienced the pain and psychological hardship of a cleft lip first hand. It is not only painful, but growing up with a cleft lip or palate is psychologically traumatic. The good news is that the surgery takes as little as 45 minutes and costs as little as $250. 100% of your donation goes to providing surgery and programs. My goal is to raise enough money to provide at least one complete surgery. It's a little expensive to do on my own but I know that between all of us we can do it. Please help by donating now following the PayPal link below. I will keep you all updated on how much has been raised and send the money to Smile Train on Sunday, June 8, 2008. Any amount will help, no matter how small.From The Smile Train website: Over the past eight years, we have provided free cleft surgery for over 300,000 children.
These children were suffering not because they were born with a cleft, but because they were born too poor to ever afford surgery.
Being born with a cleft in a developing country is truly a curse. In fact, every baby born in Uganda with a cleft is given the name Ajok which means literally, “cursed by God.” And no one knows how many newborns with clefts are killed or abandoned right after birth.
And the ones who are lucky enough to find a Smile Train free cleft surgery program, not only survive, they thrive. After a 45 minute surgery hands them back their future, and a second chance at life that they never thought they'd get.Before and After

My Blog

Sitwell’s Signing

I have a signing scheduled at Sitwell's Coffee House later this month and I had promotional counter cards printed for the event. This will be my first public signing so I wanted it to be done right. I...
Posted by on Fri, 09 May 2008 10:42:00 GMT

Profile Overhaul

Due to comments that my MySpace profile looked like "1970's Easter vommited all over it," I decided to give it another go. I hope the new layout is more pleasing to the eye (and the stomach). *Note to...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:26:00 GMT

Book reading

I just spent the day reading Clarence: How a Cricket Found His Way to the kindergartners and second graders at Ninth District Elementary school. What a day! Children have the best ideas for stories. A...
Posted by on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:24:00 GMT

A Haiku for You

One magnolia,pink and heavywith spring rain.Soon another frost.
Posted by on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:38:00 GMT

50 Friends!

Yay! 50 friends and still counting! Thanks to all of you, the goal was reached in less than half the time. Wow. Maybe I'll have 100 friends by Saturday. That would be awesome!
Posted by on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:52:00 GMT

Half way there!

I have 36 friends, and while I appreciate all of you, that's not quite enough. My goal of 50 MySpace friends shall not fail! I clearly must work harder.  :-)  I'll have to search the deepest...
Posted by on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:57:00 GMT

I’m on MySpace

I couldn't sleep last night, so at 3 am I finally decided to get up and do something. Two hours later I had a MySpace page! I know, it should only take 5 minutes to do that, but the extra hour and 55 ...
Posted by on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:14:00 GMT