I have been coming on line several times a week to check on my queue and make sure I was not an absent editor. I do occasionally have time to read a few of your blogs. I would love to have some let me know what I have missed over the last many months.

I have always felt that if I was in too difficult a space to be positive on line, I needed to keep things off the internet and get my support in other places.

Every time I thought things had turned a corner, something bad happened again. It has been one of the hardest years of my life both personally and medically. The medical things, I can share. The personal ones I will remain fairly quiet. It is not that I did not trust you all. It is not that I did not need your support. It is that this is too public of a forum to voice all the issues.

Medically last February I woke up one morning and the material in front of my left retina had detached. All medical interventions for the last 8 months have not been successful. The eye corrected is not able to pass a driving test. I do have a good team of Doctors attempting interventions to save as much vision as possible. It is legal to drive with one good eye.

March came and more medical issues developed. My mammogram came back with abnormal findings. This situation has still not been resolved but I do have a good team of doctors at Stanford.

I wish I had the support of a loving husband but my husband has decided that he needs to be free and single. I have gone through the medical issues without his support. I can not in this forum say more about this topic.

So, I came on line today to find 40+ submissions in my que by one person. All of them poorly written. I revised a few and accepted them..... them check the person's profile and saw a level 7 and more rejections than acceptance. I wrote notes on many rejects stating why I needed to reject them. Gosh, it too me two hours. Usually with my guides, I have few 1 to 5 submissions. Usually, well written and appropriate. What a mess! I know it is not a normal situation because since I have been on line I have never had that many poorly written items. I know others who have more popular guides do get this problem.

I have missed all of you. I do think of you often. Have a good day.

Oh, you all need a joke right?

Believe it or not this is a real 911 call....

Dispatcher: 9-1-1 what is the your emergency?

Caller: I heard what a sounded like gunshots coming from the brown house on the corner.

Dispatcher: Do you have an address?

Your friend,

Ann