Voices of the Ribbons©.

  Quit? Never! By Tai We all have those moments, don’t we? Where we wonder if any of it’s worth the effort and the pain? Maybe not. Maybe it’s only we broken few who periodically teeter on the edge. Consider me shrugs . I regularly have phases in my life where the alternate reality in my mind holds far greater appeal than the harsh reality of the real world, to the extent I struggle to differentiate the one from the other. I almost quit. Writing, that is. Not life. I’m long past quitting on that and I’ll continue to fight to the bitter end, but writing? Yes, I’ve considered it. As if I ever could. Hiatus. It ended up being a reasonably (to my mind) prolonged hiatus. It felt like an eternity, as if I might never be able to get word to the page again, and it very nearly broke me all over again. There were many reasons. The past catching up, the voices in my head arguing for space and negotiating a peace treaty and, in and above all that, major changes occurring in my real-time li