I’m saddened about Xanga’s inevitable demise (demise as I know it). Yes, there are alternatives, but I neither have the time to volunteer for Xanga, make a mirror-Xanga site or the money to buy a Xanga membership. I already have a blog at blogger, a free one. So, this is my final entry on this blog.

I first came to Xanga in the spring of 2003 and was known as Kindred_Spirits17 (I think). A few friends of mine had Xanga blogs and so I had to have one too. I didn’t update very often and later changed my username to Storygurl86. More time passed and I started to get more involved, and changed my username to Veronica_Leigh. Got to know some great people here and came to know @AngelAsh86 and @BigToePeople pretty well. You all are special to me.

I hope we don’t lose contact. The address to my other blog is: http://veronicaleigh.blogspot.com. You can often find me hanging around on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.

If this is it and we are parting ways, I wish you all good luck and that God may bless you.

Yours Truly,

Veronica

Well,it’s been a month since I have updated on my life. The month-long postsdedicated to the Holocaust were pretty successful, I think. All of thosestories of survivors, victims, rescuers and resistors remind me of what got meinterested in the first place. No matter where I go or what I do, the subjectof the Holocaust isn’t far behind me. I can’t explain why, but it mymagnificent obsession.

Ithas been a full year since my Dad has passed away. At times it feels like ithappened just yesterday and at other times it feels like it has been over adecade. Sometimes the pain is so deep and the sadness so great that I don’thave the words to express my grief. Or the tears. I am going through a dryspell when it comes to crying. I can only muddle through and place my hope inGod that someday times will be better. In many ways it is getting easier. We’vegotten through all of the firsts and we are making plans. So that’s good.

Mysister discovered that she has a gluten allergy. For the last few years she’shad issues with her digestion. Last year she had her gall bladder removed andexpected that after a couple months to feel better. In many ways she only gotworse. A few weeks ago, after a bad reaction to a meal, the three of us prayedand I did some snooping around on the internet. A half hour or so later, weconcluded that she was gluten-intolerant. Now that she has detoxed from gluten,she has started to feel better. 

Iam slowly and carefully querying the agents for WIP #2. I sent out a barrage ofqueries for WIP #1, up to ten a day at times. This time, however, I havelimited myself to six queries a week. One agent (that I had high hopes for)rejected it sight unseen. One Christian agent (rather her assistant) said itwouldn’t fly in the Christian market because the heroine is deceitful. I can’ttell you how many times I’ve come across Christian novels with a deceitful heroor heroine. She did say that the tone was good. Meanwhile, keeping myselfoccupied with WIP #3. It’s difficult to pace myself when it comes to a projectthat I am especially psyched about. I just want to dive in, head first, swimaround and lose myself in it completely. I had my sister read a draft of it andshe liked it and gave many helpful suggestions for it. If all goes according toplan (in all likelihood, it won’t because life never goes according to plan)perhaps I can query the agents about it in the fall.