Second Response

I was told that there was maybe too much about hurt and pain and that she needed time to think about it.

Then, later, I got this email: "There's always been something about your writing that gets my brain spinning. You are a powerful powerful woman."

I don't know how a compliment can get much better than "you are a powerful powerful woman", but the writer inside of me is swelling that I've gotten a brain spinning. I knew that to send writing about soccer there were really only two people I could send it to who might understand, and well, so far, one of them has. Or even if she didn't, she got her brain spinning, and that's even better.

Better as a writer. Which is all I need at this point.

And the Powerful Powerful Woman can cover all the parts of me I don't call "writer".