Lisa, hearing about your journey makes an impact. Seeing how you juggled taking care of your family, looking after your mom, keeping up with a tough job, and still sticking to writing—it's something to admire definitively. It's amazing how you kept pushing through, even when things got extremely tough with money and personal material, and never gave up on writing, which you love. You adding jokes and looking back on things fondly in your stories is really spectacular too. A discerning reader, such as yourself, will surely comprehend that your tale shines a really strong light on how sticking it out and having people around who've got your back can make the dreams happen; there can possibly be gratification in your extremely open and motivational manner of sharing what you've been through. Thank you very much for letting us in on your experiences.