Whoever donated a 1 month core subscription, thank you for your generosity. I am overwhelmed this morning to discover that my latest submission received a DD as well. Plus several faves and watches. I haven't been active for some time now, and honestly can not promise to be from now on. The last several years have been very hard for me, and I am a very private person, but with all of this attention I feel I owe it to whoever has been so kind and generous to me a short synopsis of why. For some time I was dealing with some health issues, but am better than I was...Then my Mother developed cancer and was very sick, and then my husband of many years also was very sick. It was a dark time, and grew even darker when I lost them both within 3 weeks of each other 3 and a half years ago. I have not recovered from these losses, my depression and grief has stifled my writing. I forced myself to write Ashes and Dust, it took months to complete, when ordinarily it would have only been at most a