Appreciate your honest feelings, Maria. Maybe because the monetary rewards are so small for most writers, and readership uncertain at time for many of us, curation appears a award. a next step up. Getting published in a publication after beginning here was such a step up that I looked forward to with anticiption.

My work was only curated once thusfar and I haven't seen much difference btween numbers of readers from articles in pubs or not or the article curated. Thanks for your easy to read thought.