Charlene Weir was born in a little town in Kansas which at that time had four hundred people or two hundred seventy five people, depending on which brother is asked. The daughter of a Lutheran minister and the youngest of seven children, she studied nursing and became a registered nurse, until illness intervened. She needed to curtail physical activities and avoid stress. Writing might avoid physical activities, but it doesn’t avoid stress. There is nothing more stressful than a blank computer monitor.