Boo Hoo

“Boo-hoo!”

That’s what someone said on Facebook in response to one of my recent blogs. Just that. “Boo-hoo!”

Then she—I assume it was a she, though there was no name attached—came back to clarify. “Well, after all, she’s published, isn’t she?”

And I laughed.

How well I remember feeling that way. It was a long time ago, but the memory is clear. If I could get published, if I could only get published I would never complain about anything again as long as I lived. Publication, I was certain, would o...