Dear Ben,

Thank you so very much for creating Apricotpie.com. I have grown into a new person through this site. I have made friends almost closer than the ones I’ve been close to my entire life in person, and matured in my writing more than through anything else. I have become a poet when I thought I was not and I have fallen in love with writing more than ever before.

I stand in the midst of a thousand hands,
Each one writes a thought, drafts a poem grand,
That mournfully drifts over desert sands,
Or tells of the kings in a distant land.

Now some hands are picked for a noble cause,
To write on the gates for all eyes to see.
Now my hand is picked; for with Ben’s applause
My essays and poems with his sense agree.

The Writing at Apricotpie begins!
Hear now our thoughts; here are our pens.

Now stand twenty-eight of our working hands,

Wow, it's been a while, hasn't it? I've missed posting ideas for stories and poems and laughing (and crying and thinking deeply) as I read all your articles. I miss you guys. :)

I'm going to be here more often now posting weird little imaginations of mine and even parts of stories I'm really writing. I must warn you, I am a wacky, crazy person and I'm a little bit of a LOTR and Narnia nerd. But I hope you enjoy my short stories, my thoughts on things of God and my little musings of imagination (poems).