Gail RaeGarwood

Born in New York, and after having raised her family there, Gail Rae-Garwood changed her life by moving to a totally new environment in 2002. It was a good move. Ms. Rae-Garwood's writing started out as a means to an end for a single parent with two children and a need for more income than her career as a NYC teacher afforded. Although the children are now grown women with lives of their own, she continues to write from a different kind of necessity: she can't stop. While most of her work is non-fiction (how to, study guides, literary guides and medical narrative), she also writes fiction: Portal in Time is a time travel romance. While writing it, she discovered that fiction is harder to write than non-fiction. Her most recent book is a compilation of essays based upon interviews about Sort of Dark Places, which is also the title. Gail retired from both college teaching and acting - after a bit of soul searching about where her limited energy would be best spent - early in 2013. Ms. Rae-Garwood writes most often about Chronic Kidney Disease. She has a three time award winning weekly blog about this topic at http://gailraegarwood.wordpress.com and maintains a Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/SlowItDownCKD. You can also find her on Twitter at https://twitter.com/SlowItDownCKD and on various Facebook CKD support groups, as well as on LinkedIn (under her name) and Instagram as SlowItDownCKD. Of course, there's always her web site at www.gail-raegarwood.com. As of April 6, 2013, the writer formerly known as Gail Rae became Gail Rae-Garwood. That was the day she married her sweetheart, Bear. Life was good; it became even better.