Did I expect 2025, my “year of health” to lead me to the States for surgery so that while my 40th birthday was spent running a half marathon, my 41st will be spent in recovery? That would be a no. 

How many copies have you sold? How much did you make? How much did it cost?! Are you going to write full time? I loved the interest in what happened after I published ‘Lou Who?’ and its “success”. But those well intended questions had an effect I hadn’t expected or considered before I turned my “just for fun” dating blog into something that resembled a business.