Ms Earthling: I, too, live in Hicksville. I rarely see or talk with anyone in person. I’m divorced, live alone, and my kids are grown. How do I write? I like to say, and it is mostly true, that I just channel the stuff. But I channel it through a mind that has 65 years of experience and 45 years of intense reading and writing. And I’ll probably be on the Memory Care Ward soon. :)