A real bummer here.  My husband's office computer crashed last week.    It had been moving slowly for a few weeks and we kept talking about needing to back some things up.  We never did.  And then it crashed.

He has bought a new hard drive (which we could not afford but it's for work) and has gotten all the software, anti-virus stuff, etc. reloaded.  But he has lost all his form letters to clients, labels, etc. that will have to be re-written, and we can agonize for hours over those types of things to get them sounding the way we want them. 

The worst part of all is that he had written some poems on that computer that we had not backed up or printed off.  He was hoping to contact an editor to see if there was any possibility at all of getting them published.  We know there is probably not much of a Christian poetry market, but it was a dream nonetheless - a dream now shattered, or at least postponed.  Those poems were written from the depths of his heart and sometimes from the pit of despair as we have been going through some difficult times.  I thought they were quite good, although I realize I'm a bit biased.    Fortunately, some of the poems were on a free website we had set up over a year ago, so those are not lost.  And we had printed off one recent one (by God's providence I have no doubt) written about his father's death two years ago on January 10th.  He was able to send that one to his mom via email a couple of days ago on the anniversary of his dad's death and I'm SO HAPPY that one had been printed off so we had a copy of it.

Hopefully there will be more poems forthcoming - and those WILL BE backed up!!  But I'm still so bummed about the loss of the others that he had recently written.  They were so good.  I will miss them so much.

Paula