A Deep Breath (#28)

"A lifetime of fulfilling achievements is on the horizon."

On April 5, 2020, six years out from a teaching career that ended poorly, I was volunteering my time as stage manager and prop master at a dance studio, and making new friends. My life was taking shape again. Then Covid upended the world. I had to adapt. So, I uploaded two posts to this blog, and began a new journey. Its five-year anniversary is in two months. In preparation for this special day, I am taking a sabbatical from blogging. During this time, I hope to answer a question hidden among the two-hundred-and-forty entries on this site: how am I going to begin the next twenty-five years of my life?

Will it be at the front of a classroom? Publishing my first book on Amazon? Learning how to draw in order to create a graphic novel? Resisting this country's slide into authoritarianism with words? Perhaps with actions, too?

And will this blog become a journal of one man's transformation from a stay-at-home parent, typing away on an old computer in a chilly basement without windows, to someone else entirely?

I will let you know the weekend of April 5, 2025.

Until then, feel free to read the previous two-hundred-and-thirty-nine posts.