R, I feel your joy about the Jung class and the film criticism class. You go!

SPG, thanks for all the positives. I'm becoming more positive about my writing. - which will make marketing easier. I mean, how do you market something when you're thinking, "well, there are couple of slow parts, and the ending isn't exactly . . . but if you just look at . . Anyway, I don't feel that way about Refuge, and when I get finished editing Unfamiliar Waters, hopefully, I will feel good about that one too.

I'm glad you liked thew bats. Here's the dilemma I had with them. Originally, there were hundreds of bats in the cave and they first scared Jody and Emberlee when the girls entered the left fork of the tunnel. Then, as I was editing, I read the line about Liam kicking up snow, and I wondered how bats made it through winter and if they even existed in the northern Yukon. So I looked it up on the net. it turns out that there are five species of bats in the Yukon, They live in trees, not caves, and they migrate south for the winter. Bats in general either migrate or hibernate. If You wake up a hibernating bat, it will fly around, and then go out and look for food. I get to choose between a good story line, and science. So I cut the hundreds of bats down to one small colony. I rationalize, that a few bats could have stayed too long and ended up in a cave in the winter, and been startled by the humans, etc. etc. So I stretched the truth, but didn't actually break it.

We had a wonderful winter in California with all the rain that we're supposed to have.

Me, signing off.