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Via Instagram. Solid draft done. Next steps in progress. Seeking an agent. Also, I’ve been in New England since returning to the U.S. with a nice month in Florida for the holidays. More permanent move coming up in the spring. #writing #novel #authorlife

Wednesday, February 28, 2024
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This is the week. Butterflies in my stomach as we head off in a few days back to Seattle. We’ll be there for a short visit running some errands, catching up with friends, and exchanging some stuff in storage so we can go on the next leg of our pushing-our-boundaries tour.

So much growth to discuss, and still so much to process after this adventure. This is the longest I and we (as a couple) have been on the road away from home. We made our first trip together backpacking in several countries in Europe in 1994. Since then, we have regularly traveled to many other places in the world–usually not for more than a few weeks at a time, however. I’ve also done some solo travel over the years, which I highly recommend. In the U.K. when I considered graduate school there in 1997, I made my way for a month through parts of England and Scotland I had only read about in literature and seen in the movies. And then for two months in 2007, I went across New Zealand, Tahiti, with a few days in Sydney, Australia while my partner made his way through law school. I felt one of us being tortured in that experience [law school] was enough [half joking]. I wanted to see more of the world.

Monday, October 23, 2023   Read more …

Transitions & Next Steps

I feel ready. In less than two weeks, our Mexican book adventure will be entering a new chapter. We head back to the U.S., having written the majority of the chapters we set out to do. On top of the work we’ve done, we have created many great new memories for me to take forward. I love that I got to explore some new places in Mexico with my partner and make new memories in some old places that had been emotionally tough to revisit. Our travel has been a net positive. But I’m ready to head on to the next adventure.

Monday, October 16, 2023   Read more …