No! Don't feel that way at all. I tend to do that to make things clear in my own mind - like active listening, only in writing. If it came off as snarky, it wasn't meant to. I happen to like your writing style and your verbosity, or I wouldn't be on this thread.

You don't need an editor, just lots of time to craft your wonderful journal entries. (Although I may have to take issue if you keep mysteriously referring to both the mini-journal you lost, and the journal you may at some point have time to do - I'm dying of curiosity!)

As a lawyer friend of mine likes to say - "words are your toys."

;\) L

One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.