Well, JJ, I guess I'll be at least another month older. I got the June issue and I'm not in it. They said it was scheduled tentatively for the summer, so I suppose I still have July and August to hope for.

Louisa, they did ask for a picture, too. I sent them a 'then' and 'now' set, and they sent me an email telling me they had approved at least one of them. We'll see. I noticed that they use a lot of short pieces of maybe only a paragraph or two.

I'm holding out hope that it comes in time to share with my friend's mother. She's been very ill.

Should be interesting, too, to see how much my piece is edited. This writing biz surely is an exercise in patience, huh?