Crime scene.She hesitates ( Read more... )

What is the one thing you'd never give up?Excepting the obvious (my husband, my friends, my family), the answer is simple: my Baltimore Orioles season tickets. I've had them since 1988 or thereabout, so I have wicked seniority when it comes to playoff tickets, for one. And they're really good seats: Field 44, which is between the home dugout and ( Read more... )

What do you want most out of life?What I want, I already have: a good, peaceful life with my husband and our unborn child. So I guess that doesn't count. I have nothing left that I want personally, therefore the question becomes what do I do with it all? I only hope that I take care of the people I love, and that I make difference in the world. ( Read more... )

Everyone has one, so what's your dream?Being the starting second baseman for the Baltimore Orioles. In all honesty, they could probably use one. Among other things. But ever since I was a kid, I wanted to be the starting second baseman for the Orioles. Ideally, with my brother behind the plate, and super-ideally, with Josh Hamilton in the outfield ( Read more... )

RP Prompt: Prom Night. Relive your prom the way you wanted if you've passed that stage.Stark's prom night had been one of the best nights of her then-young life. She, her boyfriend, and her best friends had all gone together and enjoyed themselves, capped off by a drunken rendition of Starship's "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now." It had been so much ( Read more... )

Ten moments you wouldn't mind reliving.Surprisingly, after all the hard cases, trying times, and brushes with the unknown, those aren't the things I remember most. The moments I would want to relive are the small ones, the ones that helped me through, the ones that in retrospect mean much more than I thought ( Read more... )

Ten things you love about your significant other or best friend.01. Underneath all that testosterone, he's a romantic. Our house has a picket fence, for crying out loud. And I didn't put it there ( Read more... )

More often than not, a hero’s most epic battle is the one you never see; it’s the battle that goes on within him or herself.In the two years I worked on the X-Files, I came up against some pretty amazing things. Things that weren't human, things that had powers and abilities I could only imagine. I had my battles with some of them, with varying ( Read more... )

Picture prompt.What can I say about Paris? My honeymoon was probably one of the best weeks of my life. I mean, if you had to ask me about the best days of my life, it would be right up there with my wedding day and the 2008 Home Run Derby ( Read more... )

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.One of my fatal flaws is that I'm always trying to make everyone happy. I'm that person standing in the middle, trying to find compromise. Always trying to make somebody proud, whether it's my father, my boss, or my husband. I guess that makes me kind of ( Read more... )