Are you a writer?  If so, I have a new and tremendous respect for you, because this  year I have been trying to write a book and it... is... killing....me!   I am primarily a speaker, and I have been told that I write very much like I speak.  This would be fantastic if I spoke like a normal,  understandable sane person, with linear thought processes and comprehensive sentence structure.  Unfortunately, (and you can easily verify this with my longsuffering husband) I speak in circles.  Not  just circles, but verbal trapezoids, nonsensalellagrams and my all time favorite, rabbit trailellipticals. 
     Naturally, all these linguistic gymnastics make perfect sense to me as I jump from one idea to the other in my head  the way a female gymnast jumps from one uneven bar to another and back again.  My poor readers (and husband...) on the other hand, require at the very least, a few courtesy clues as to where my mental journey is taking them, assuming they even want to go in the first place!
     Putting life events, personal thoughts, and ultimately, an inspiring message into the written word has been a real challenge for me, but I am hammering away at it,( and the keyboard) on a daily basis.  My thanks to those of you who read this, and to those who have helped me along the way with both encouragement and critique. 
I do know where I would be without you.... on a very long rabbit trailellipticalallelagramazoid!