man o man... wha'happened?
I can't even read this whole thread. I tried but started getting dizzy.
Just got back from the ocean. It rained all day friday and saturday and this morning the sun came out ... gorgeous day.. had to head back home.
No dramas for me. Just a buncha old people, er i mean old friends, partying together. I had a blast. Add one to my publishing credits. In the reunion book, they called me, "Dori, our poet laureate" and published a poem of mine which I wrote for the event... it's called "35 years"... a lot can happen in 35 years. Some of those people even learned to spell.

Of course, there was a typo in the poem. Oh well. I screwed up and forgot to use spellcheck before submitting it. Just goes to show ya, the darn editors didn't read it probably or they woulda caught it.
Yanno what? Life is really really really fucking short. (and I read somewhere that using the word "really" is really weak when it comes to writing).
Let's all hug and make up, wanna? I'll watch. It wasn't my fight.
And yeah, sure, Geoff. I never knew you wanted your own spot. If you want one, I'll set it up for you. No problem. What do you want to call it? Come up with a name and a description and send it to me and you're on!
But ya really gotta realize that if you put your stuff out there, you WILL get critique. That's the nature of the beast. We all get it. Be brave. Either accept it and take what you can from it and learn from it, or don't pay any attention to it. It's entirely up to you. Certainly not worth arguing about.
Just for the record, btw, I think spelling counts, I also think you're a very creative and talented writer but if you get critiqued because of your spelling errors, that's a pretty darn valid critique, no?
How a critiquer critiques is the critiquer's style and, as I said, I haven't read this whole thread, but it's been my experience that ms. mousey1 always approaches everything with a bit of levity.
In conclusion (which is a very poor way to end a piece of writing and also it's very poor writing to use the word very too much), what happened? lol... lighten up, ok?
love ya all.