Okay, no big fanfare. It's just me. Everywoman. Compulsive, controlling, craving chocolate.

Writing has been my passion since 1960, when Grandma set up an ancient Royal typewriter on a metal table and cold metal stool. My vivid imagination finally had an outlet. All the stories tumbling in my head finally had a place to go--which was good because my mom thought I was crazy.

While my siblings and cousins played outside, I stuck my tush to that metal stool (sometimes literally on hot days) typing stories. Adventurous tales of rescues and damsels in distress. All illustrated by yours truly, and bound with tape. Still have some of them. They're classics. Jilly the Teddy Bear. Flicka and Cathy. Hey, I was seven.

My other passion is Israel and the Jewish people. Makes sense. They're the people of the greatest book of all, the Bible. Hubby and I joined a Messianic Jewish synagogue in Philadelphia, Beth Yeshua thirteen years ago.

These two passions have merged in my writing. Whether fiction or non-fiction, my heart is to see Messianic Jews and Christians one in the Messiah. Because, guess what, when we're one? God will do the impossible!