Get Your Blog On: Julia Roberts of “Kidneys and Eyes” Talks About Building a Community

on October 11, 2011

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Kidneys and EyesKidneys and Eyes, the moving blog run by a mom and marketing executive who happens to be named Julia Roberts, was started to help keep friends and family up to date on her two kids, who were three and five years old at the time. This wasn’t just a place to post the occasional snapshot: both her children had been diagnosed with a rare form of polycystic kidney disease, a genetic condition for which there is currently no cure or treatment. Support for Special Needs, a separate site that Julia cofounded, includes a forum to help caregivers and others advocate for children and others with genetic diseases and other conditions. You can support Julia’s drive to cure PKD by donating money on her page for the 10th annual Walk for PKD. Find out what her blogging taught her and how it helped her family and others in the interview below:

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