As a liver transplant recipient, a member of the transplant community, and an advocate for organ, eye and tissue donation, I believe that there is a need for forums that provide opportunities to share experiences, ideas, and information relevant to the organ donation and transplantation experience that we can all benefit from. As such, I decided to launch my blog to encourage readers to actively participate by sharing their experiences, advice, and information relevant to organ donation and transplantation. I hope that broad participation by members of the transplant community and others, will advance the goals of increasing awareness of the need for organ donation, increasing the number of people registering to be organ donors, and helping our readers with the many diverse challenges that we face as organ recipients, donors, and donor families. Pre and post transplant experiences, writing and interacting with donor families, the affects of medications, depression, paying forward as advocates are just a few of the topics that we will discuss. Broad participation by members of the transplant community and others is the key to the success of this blog, so I look forward to your posts.