Another reply to WRITE since I couldn't post anywhere else

[reallyME]

WRITE and others, I want to encourage you that, no matter what issues you are struggling with, they CAN get better!  What it took for me, was to find new friends, safe people who DID love me and whom I CAN trust. 

I know this will be more difficult for people who have avoidance issues and are not likely to just start talking to someone, but it's "doable" no matter what, if you can overcome your inhibitions socially, through prayer, meds, counseling or whatever you need to use to overcome it.

I did it and I believe others can too.

~Laura

[WRITE]

Thank you Laura, though I hardly have avoidance issues or social inhibitions!

Re posting- I've had problems with posting too a lot this week?

[Gaining Strength]

Re posting- I've had problems with posting too a lot this week?

Me too.  It's annoying isn't it. - GS
 
 

[Stormchild]

Are you folks all using the same browser? [for example, Internet Explorer, Netscape, or FireFox?] I have Safari and it's been working fine, although my page loads have been slow... probably due to dial-up.

Oh - edit in: there's a trick I use too, that helps. If I write more than a couple of paragraphs of a post - no matter how short they are - I hit the preview button and get a preview. I discovered that if I spend more than a certain amount of time writing a post, or if it gets longish, I lose it when I either preview or try to post. But if I do a preview early, and keep doing them from time to time, this almost never happens.

Don't know if that will help or not... but it has been working well for me.

Edit in again: another trick... I can just about tell, now, when I'm going to lose a post, if I hit the 'save' or 'preview' button and it hangs and hangs and hangs... I hit the stop button at the top of the page, open TextEdit [NotePad, whatever - the rich text processor] - and copy the post there, then close and reopen the browser and paste the contents right back in off TextEdit, and preview immediately, and this works too.

[Gaining Strength]

internet explorer here - GS

[Overcomer]

good I thought I was the only one

[axa]

Storm,

You sound so knowledgable..........just plain scared of computers me.

axa