Author Biography
Robin Botie is a blogger and Photo-shopper who believes she can design her way into or out of anything. For three years she lived in the trenches of a war against cancer and became an expert in walking the tightrope between protecting her daughter’s health and guarding her instinct to live life like it could end in an hour.
In her weekly blogs Botie writes about growing in the midst of grief and finding life after loss of a child. She currently phones the bereaved for Hospicare and Palliative Care Services, and volunteers for The Compassionate Friends, a national organization supporting bereaved parents. She has worked as an art teacher at the Elizabeth Ann Clune Montessori School of Ithaca and as a special education teacher in the Ithaca City School District. She is the creator and former owner of Silk Oak, an Ithaca, New York-based hand silkscreen printing and design company. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Art Education) and Master of Arts (Environmental Arts) from Syracuse University. A foodie, a hiker, an out-loud reader, Botie is the proud mother of a grown son and daughter. She lives in the hills surrounding Ithaca, New York in the house she designed on a small pond with a green heron, ducks and geese, very vocal frogs, deer, raccoons and muskrats, and an occasional fox.
