I joined VOA in 2012. During the tenure of over ten years as a VOA member and editor of ALM, much was accomplished with the ALM community. Many people involved faded away and disappeared altogether for whatever their reasons were. That's their business. So be it. But I was still there. ALM 5 issue was to be the last issue for a while, from both the editors involved, as we basically hit a 'burnout' level. The graphics & layout for #5 ALM were completed, Issue 5 published, but the efforts were not without hurt, pain, disappointment, and sometimes anger with the mechanisms so presented to the editors by the VOA admin powers that be.

Nearly two years went by after ALM #5 was published with no further ALM works for the next issue.

But seeing the need for an ezine in the MAP community, the same editors eventually came back and rebooted ALM to produce #6 issue. This return wasn't easy and there was much discussed and put forth between the VOA /ALM editors and VOA Admin with direct regards to how the ALM #5 works went and a serious need for change. We eventually agreed to terms and #6 started. After several months, the editors had successfully built up and prepared many articles, stories, poems, reviews. ALM #6 was well on its way towards final publication as many of the works were prepared with their specific graphics layouts. It all looked great! I felt very happy and pleased that the VOA admin had pretty much kept to the terms and the editors were productive and progressing well.

And then BANG!

With the recent events that happened, as explained in the GATB Report, I personally felt that such was really none of my business and stated such repetitively to VOA both on chat and via PMs. I really had nothing to do with what transpired between certain VOA members and staff. Though a sad event to have ever happened in the MAP VOA community, I figured there would be a bit of sanity returning after the smoke had cleared. And then it happened and I was blocked from logging back onto VOA.

I felt that the Rug was Pulled Out from Beneath me! I was never listed in that GATB Report. I was never involved in the events that led to the Report. I was Blocked out. The worse of it was being blocked from ALM itself.

This has deeply hurt me, vehemently angered me, deeply disappointed me, and has pretty much burst my bubble for continuing to be involved in any MAP endeavors.

I’m done. I don't need the drama.

Time to move on in my life elsewhere.