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Author, Sharon Myers.  Four-time Paralympian-Pan-American wheelchair athlete, Sharon continues to travel around the world promoting equal access for people with physical impairments. She and her husband Billy, also a paraplegic live independently on their small farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. 

Sharon in Cusco, Peru

Illustrator, Dell Siler. Dell is a professional artist/illustrator with over 35 years experience. A graduate of Radford University with a Masters Degree in Painting and Drawing, he has produced art work for private individuals, publishing companies, advertising agencies in the United States. Cartoon caricatures are among the pinnacles of his talent.

“Sometimes life holds special gifts when you least expect them,” says Sharon Moore Myers about her first book, Paco’s Gift - El Regalo de Paco, written in both English and Spanish.
When Sharon met an unforgettable shoeshine boy in Cusco, Peru, she never imagined the spiritual gifts she would receive from this stirring magical encounter. This heartwarming true story, for people of all ages, is about the spiritual connection between a southern American woman, paralyzed at the age of three, and a simple act of kindness shown to her by a bedraggled shoeshine boy in the Andes Mountains.
The answer to provide for the people she had met in Peru came to her in a vision during a sleepless night in her Troutville, Virginia home. Sharon's long dilemma of changing her buying habits at Christmas and giving to those in need rekindles the childlike wonder in the true spirit of Christmas.
Sharon, a wheelchair globetrotter, shares a glimpse of her adventures into ancient, sacred sites of Peru.
“Both of my brothers have Macular Degeneration. Jerry and Amon will be able to enjoy the audio book now available on my website.”
The illustrations are painted with watercolors and pencils Sharon brought back from Peru to insure the colors were authentic for her long-time friend and professional illustrator Dell Siler. Because of a disability, Dell paints with a brush held between his teeth.
Paco’s Gift - El Regalo de Paco, for people of all ages, was blessed by Pope John Paul II in a letter received by Sharon two days prior to his death.

For your copy of Sharon’s first book, Paco’s Gift - El Regalo de Paco, see order information on the Books page.

Just two days before Pope John Paul died, I received this letter from him bestowing his prayerful good wishes for the Paco project.

In 1981, I was one of twelve American athletes invited to Italy for sports exhibitions celebrating the International Year of the Disabled. Here Pope John Paul presents me with a rosary. He said to me, "Go out into the world unafraid. Live life to the fullest."

Fulfilling a twenty-five year dream to go and give back to people with disabilities in third world countries, I would be called Braveheart by the Peruvians who carried me to the top of Machu Picchu, whitewater rafting down the Urubamba River and into the jungles, feats difficult for even the most able-bodied to achieve. In Cusco, we began a new wheelchair basketball team, Cusco Coraje with just five players in 2001. Today the group boasts over 100 members.

In Cusco, I met many inspiring people, one of whom was a little shoe shine boy, who touched my heart. Based on this encounter, came Pacos Gift / El Regalo de Paco, a book for people of all ages written in both English and Spanish. The story of Paco has already reached many people around the world and touched their hearts.

Dell painting Paco with paintbrush in his mouth.

Special Assistant, Grace Kim Kanoy. Born in Canada to South Korean immigrants, Grace has found her home in North Carolina leaving a film production career in Vancouver. While enjoying the calm of country living, she now spends her time helping her husband, Cary with his adventure travel company Core Expeditions, which is presently developing an accessible tour for people with disabilities to the Galapagos Islands and serving as a marketing director for an ad agency, LPI Business Solutions.

Grace posing in Sharon's first car--a 1965 Plymouth Barracuda!