Wow... Arbitrarykitten... Thank you for the words of kinship, encouragement and challenge!

• and it's been 9 months... and I am just now logging back into Steemit - it has been that long - that would be one school term. I let my commitment to writing those novels get bogged down... I also got disenchanted with the Steemit platform as well - (the more I understood how it works - or I should say 'worked' - I have no doubt things have changed). It has been a bit of a year - learning the ropes of the new job, worrying if I'll get rehired (I just did), etc..

But, I'm back.

I even got back to writing my sci-fi novel last week. I am starting from scratch as so many new ideas and tech and new agendas are developing in the world at the moment that have an impact on the not-too-distant future setting of my novel...

Your note here is the first one I've seen since logging back in and it is a wonderful welcome.

Thank you so much. I owe you - as you are expecting to pick one of my novels off the shelf soon.