

Grace Notes
Sileya...Kudos and Congrats on a wonderful web site! Great job! And don't
ya just know what McCoy is thinking in the picture at the bottom of the story
list page! Great pic choice! Great job!
The Bat
It *rocks!* Bless you, Sil, for a job well done -- as usual. You truly are the HTML Dom of Cybertrek (HTMLDOC). ;-D
Fizzbin
I am honoured to have a story link at your site. You've obviously spent a lot of time with this website. It's lovely, it's detailed, it has ***tons*** of stories, which is my personal heaven, and it loads easily. You must have scrounged the internet. I've looked, on and off, for McCoy sites, and never found what you have. Though I never had the fortune to have contact with DeForest Kelley, from what I've heard of him, I believe the spirit and love in your site would have made him feel very complimented.
Kim
Sileya, The Mint Julep Inn is marvellous.
Scarlet
Ahhh... Truly a delightful establishment, my compliments to the proprietor. Obviously run by gentlefolk of taste and discretion, as witness their choice of fine fanfic served. Ahhh. Tasty indeed. Greywolf and Moondog say, git yer asses on over theah and chech it out, whoah!
Greywolf, inordinately pleased.
By the way, I was looking around and it's a great site with great stories.
Brooke W. Orosz
I think this is a great idea!
Gayle
The Mint Julep Inn is a wonderful site - congratulations.
Marketa
Sileya, thank you so much. I hope the site gets a lot of hits. About time there was a McCoy place.
Salatrel
I just found your Mint Julep Inn site, and it is the best gift I have
received in years! I have been a Star Trek fan since it first came on the air when I was 12, and I think I fell in love at first sight with Dr. McCoy. He was the character that kept me interested and has throughout the years.
I was delighted to find trek paperbacks being published, but unless
McCoy was a big part of them, they didn't hold my interest since I felt
he was such an integral part of what the message of the series
was: compassion, passion, integrity, caring, and healing be it
emotionally or physically. He was the "voice" I could relate to, as well
as being so damn good looking! And now I am about the age he was when
the series started, and he looks as good to me as ever, if not more so!
As the years went by, I read the new novels less and less. They seemed
to become more action adventure and less character oriented. Actually I
thought that it was just me losing interest as life went on.
I was able to get on-line 2 years ago with this trusty first generation
webtv, and began to explore the web for anything that I was interested
in to see what was out there. I have many interests and hobbies now, but
I poked in Star Trek and found my original enthusiasm was rejuvenated by
that of other fans.
I found usenet (a confirmed lurker) and ASC, ASCEM and found again the
wonder and joy I had felt way back when as I discovered stories about
*people* once again.
Even with the wonderful ratings and character codes in the archives,
finding McCoy stories could be tedious. What found I devoured, even
those that bugged the hell out of me because I saw the character
differently some authors portray him. I wished someone somewhere would
put a site like this together. I had read and bookmarked what sites I
had found on De Kelley, and was delighted to find that he was such a
good decent man but so wanted more, about him and the character he
brought to life.
On a more personal note,
I came to feel closer to him as I found myself plunged into the world of
medical care unwillingly and unexpectedly as a result of my parents'
health. I ended up being their sole caregiver by necessity and
circumstance with no experience before-hand. That was quite the
education on the state of medical care and caring and competence today.
Too few real McCoys out there and it cost us dearly physically and
emotionally. Far too late for my mother, who has been gone 8 years
eventually I did find one who really cared and listened and respected
us. How sad that that is hard to find.
In some ways, I feel that having been exposed to the character of McCoy
when I was so young helped me to not settle for less than the respect,
competence, and caring he showed when I had to step in. Its been 2 years
now since I lost my dad, but I know that the last few years he received
the best care he could, and as a result of a special Doctor who would
make house calls, I was able to keep him here (he had dementia and
parkinson's) where he could find some peace.
What I am very badly trying to say here is you don't know how grateful I
am that you put this together. I was as housebound as my father, but
what I have found on-line enabled me to travel the world and the
universe, and find some measure of the goodness of life and nobility of
spirit that first touched me so long ago.
I am grateful too, to all the authors who share the vision and took the
time to share so freely their creations.
Blessings ~
R.H.