I have been writing fanfic at least since my early teens, and I am thrilled to find a place to read other fics as well as share my own. I've never shared my fiction before...

Unfortunately, I have finished college. I loved college (over 250 undergrad hours and 2 degrees)! So now I seek ways to flex my mind lest it get stiff and slow. I'd like to think I could at least hold up my end of a conversation with Bobby Goren. As it is, I am an endless fount of useless information (and I also read Smithsonian magazine, which brings the count up to, what, 7?). I seek to expand my creativity by writing fiction and also to maintain a link to the characters I love.

My youngest daughter (the fourth of five kids) was born with kidney failure, so the organ donation/kidney failure episodes of Law and Order and ER struck a very real chord with me. In March 2013, she received a kidney transplant, after a wait of almost 7-1/2 years. In December 2014, she went back on dialysis after a slow decline in kidney function due to a virus which destroyed her new kidney. In May 2015, they had to remove the transplant as it was causing life-threatening complications. We almost lost her during that surgery. She's doing well since then, on dialysis and hoping to get another chance at life with a working kidney. Life's been rough for her.

In early 2009, my middle girl was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and has kidney damage as a complication of her diabetes as well as fibromyalgia. And so I say to the cosmos: Enough already! (please)

My family is kind enough to allow me some time for my passion, and I do my best to accommodate theirs.

Thank you for letting me share, and I hope you enjoy what I write. Reviews and constructive criticism are encouraged and welcome!

My ongoing series, set in the AU I created under the auspices of the story Choices, continues to be popular and I have received a number of requests to set the sequels and missing scenes into a timeline. So here is the list of stories that began with Choices in the order in which they occur in reference to the Choices timeline:

1. Shadows of Love
2. The Long Wait
3. Beauty From Pain
4. A Midnight Summons
5. Confrontations
6. Love That Hurts the Deepest
7. The Last Third
8. Someone Special
9. Forever and A Day
10. Soft is the Heart of A Child
11. Starve A Fever
12. No Stone Unturned
13. Reflections
14. Hurricane Winds
15. His Little Light
16. When Eagles Fly
17. Heart of A Lion
18. A New World is Born
19. Endless Night

Writer's Block: When characters get fed up with all that you put them through and go on strike.