For Gould, caregiving ranks as one of those still-peripheral subjects. Nearly 300 manuscripts poured in. Change affects all of us. Everyone has experienced it. It scares most of us, but we all come through it, usually as different people.
Many essays show the rewards of perseverance and the triumph over fear.
They're mountain climbers, skiers, or rollerbladers. Rogers, of Tucson, Ariz., notes that without anthologies, many writers would have no place to publish pieces like these. They're not magazine articles because they're first person. They're very reflective - classic personal essays. For publishers, anthologies like these offer a way to discover new writers.