THIS BLOG IS DEFUNCT, AND HAS BEEN FOR SEVERAL YEARS, ESPECIALLY SINCE THE AUTHOR'S HUSBAND FELL ILL TO CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE ON 7 JANUARY 2015, THEN DIED, GRUESOMELY, OF THIS ALWAYS-FATAL ILLNESS, ON 19 MARCH 2015.
AS A RESULT OF HER CHRONIC CLINICAL DEPRESSION, EXTREMELY COMPLICATED BEREAVEMENT, THE STRESS OF HER FINANCIAL STRAITS, AND SEVERE PTSD, THE AUTHOR IS NO LONGER ABLE TO MAINTAIN THIS BLOG OR TO CONTINUE WITH HER WRITING AT ANY POINT IN THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE.
SADLY, AS A SELF-PUBLISHED INDEPENDENT AUTHOR, SHE HAS OPERATED AT A CONSISTENT LOSS FROM THE VERY BEGINNING, IN LATE 2013. THEREFORE, NOW, MORE THAN EVER, HAD SHE THE BRIGHT SPIRIT, ENERGY, MOTIVATION, AND WHEREWITHAL TO CONTINUE THE ENDEAVOR, SHE WOULD BE UNABLE TO DEVOTE ANY TIME AT ALL TO THIS LARGELY UNPROFITABLE, LEISURELY PURSUIT.
NATURALLY, AT SUCH A TIME OF CRISIS, WITH HER FISCAL SOLVENCY AND HER PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH HANGING IN THE BALANCE, HER SURVIVAL AND POTENTIAL RESTORATION TO SOME SEMBLANCE OF NORMALCY ARE THEREFORE BOTH CRUCIAL AND PARAMOUNT.
TO HER FORMER READERS, SHE ASKS ME TO TELL YOU THAT SHE IS SO VERY SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT OR INCONVENIENCE HER PREDICAMENT HAS CAUSED. BUT, AS HER NIECE AND CAREGIVER, I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT SHE MOST DEFINITELY DID NOT CHOOSE THIS PATH. IT CHOSE HER.
PERHAPS IN TIME, HER ROAD WILL GET EASIER, BUT RIGHT NOW SHE FEELS MANY, MANY MILES REMOVED FROM THAT GLAD OUTCOME -- AND JUST A SINGLE DROPPED HEARTBEAT AWAY FROM "HOME," WITHIN HER BELOVED HUSBAND'S BEDSIDE URN WHEREIN HIS STERLING, SILVER CINDERS LIE, PATIENTLY AWAITING HER OWN.
WITH DEEP REGRET, FOR E. (ELLE) LLEWELLYN ...
SHARON A. MAYNARD
