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It is hard to believe it has been over a month since my last post. In that entry<\/a>, I shared how my life\u2014including my writing\u2014has changed in light of my wife’s recent passing to her eternal home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps it shouldn’t surprise me that it’s been over a month since I last posted. After all, the passage of time has become highly relative in my world. In the tedium of slogging through all the tasks that I have to complete on my own, this has been a long and slow-moving season. Paradoxically, I also encounter daily reminders of the life that I shared with Angela that make me feel like we were just laughing together yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of you might be wondering what I’ve been up to in this past month (that feels like a day but also feels like a year).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Update<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

First, thank you for your support, your concern, and your prayers. Even though we are interacting through words on a screen, I know that you are a community of compassionate people who fully recognize that an actual human sits on this side of the keyboard, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the human side, I am doing as well as can be expected. I am not scrambling financially, and my schedule is under control. I eat, sleep, and get things done around the house (though each of these is different from before). I watch TV less and read more. All in all, I manage and it works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That said, the return to (or rediscovery of) normalcy in my writing life has been more elusive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back to Writing \u2026 Sort of \u2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I have not yet resumed drafting my next book (more on that in a bit), but I’ve taken other steps to get back into some kind of flow as a writer.<\/p>\n\n\n

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