I’ve been thinking lately about home, and what home means to me. For the longest time, I’ve been convinced that where I am now isn’t really home. Florida has never felt like home to me. Home is, I thought, back in Kansas. I lived there for most of my life, it feels comfortable when I [...]
One of my favorite quotes from a book reads, “it does not to do dwell on dreams and forget to live.” Lately, I confess, I’ve been dwelling on dreams. I try so hard to live in the now, as it were, but I feel as though I’m failing entirely. With my dissertation safely in the [...]
My parents came for a visit this weekend and it was so wonderful to see them. I’ve written before about how hard it is to be so very far away from home, but what has surprised me even more is that this hasn’t gotten easier despite the fact that we’ve been in Florida for seven [...]