Waiting in the Graveyard

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In the first half of 2017, I was restless. I’d left my job as a teacher the previous year to write full time and though I’d written countless words, nothing seemed to be going anywhere. My blog was still a regular thing, but the book I thought I had in me wasn’t taking shape. There was no narrative arc. You need one of those to make a good story.

My husband and I were empty nesters and though we were not unhappy, our lives seemed like they ran on parallel tracks. We aren’t the couple who golfs or runs or gardens together.   He reads WWII history and I read spiritual memoir. He likes to bush hog and I like to retreat in monasteries.  Once I stopped working full time and life slowed down a bit, I wondered if we were growing in different directions…

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