They are banking on our short attention spans to not be able to do our own due diligence and not be able to do our own research. However, there are those who do that research and then share it in more bite-sized and comprehensive pieces. Someone like me has trouble with all those fancy shmancy legal terms and I need a dictionary beside me when I read things like that. I have to do it in little bits otherwise I lose focus. My reading comprehension has always been poor, especially when it comes to legal terms written in ways that we don't speak and is made to confuse us more than to inform us. That's why those who understand the mumbojumbo and translate that for us to understand it are valuable.

Hope is always what helps me move forward. I will continue to create my content until the day I am told I cannot anymore. I will not stop just because it might happen. Creating makes me happy, so I continue to do so. And then if the inevitable does happen, I have backup plans.

It's funny. I wrote a story which I'll be publishing in the Spring, and the characters in it are fighting "For the Freedom of Life." That phrase somehow has taken on more meaning than I could have imagined when I first write it 16 years ago. It's taken me this long to come to a ready stage for publication and I have no idea how I'm going to fare, but I have a feeling that it's happening at just the right time. Because today we are fighting for the Freedom of Life, for real.