Thanks, Naxx; I'm flattered. I admire your poetic bent in your posts and the poem you've posted. I've never attempted poetry. I fear it's beyond the scope of my talent. I have, however, struggled with writing fiction for the last 12 years or so, but the only thing published is a short nonfiction piece on a website. It's at
http://www.charg.org/Stories.htm. It's not professional; I didn't get paid for it, but it encourages me to pursue more nonfiction. Though the whole site's been revamped since the piece first appeared, it's still there two years later.
I've been putting off getting any work done by posting here, so I'm going to be here less often for a while to work on a project that's been percolating in me for months. I'll check in now and again, just not with the same frequency as I have for the short time I've been here. But I hope we can correspond now and again and I'll keep up as best I can with your posts. We really should start a group for writers here.