This morning I drove to the building where my eye doctor is located. I had to pick up a new pair of glasses. After that, I went to Barnes & Noble. I had a coupon for a free cookie, so I ordered something to drink and got my two cookies. I poured half of the drink into a clean cup for Rob, since I can never finish one and ate half of the first cookie. Decadent.

Now I am home again, facing the blankness of the remainder of the day. It is going to be quite hot here for May.

It’s been a bit over a week since I decided to offer my ebook with any donation and I am quite sure it is the wrong thing to do. How do I know that? I turn to something that a friend of Leonard Cohen’s told him. “Leonard, are you sure you are doing the wrong thing?”

Let’s face it. Life is improv and it frequently doesn’t work. What has worked is that I am feeling deeply grateful to the few people that donated in order to get the ebook. I write for a handful of people; I know that. Maybe down the road it will be a paperback, but for now it is only an ebook.

The right people will be drawn to it, as Theo said and as my sister just wrote to me. I have to trust that.

There is something about writing that fills a need in me to be original, to express a unique situation that most people never have to face. The loss of a child and its lifelong bruising. Some of you know; some of you can only guess, but you have had your own life destroyed to one extent or another. And we are all learning how to step back into a broken life.

There is no going back to what used to be and you can never quite figure out what to do next. Sound familiar?

So thanks to those that now have the book in their hands. I did my best and now I hope a few people will find out about it.

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Vicki Woodyard