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Stop Waiting For Your Life to “Turn a Corner”
Your life is just happening, right now.
One of the strangest things about living in the South is how early in the year school starts. My children will be back in school on August 6, exactly one month from tomorrow, a date that’s actually four days later than they started last year. This surprises my friends who live on the East Coast, who don’t get going until Labor Day or even after, though I do tend to remind them that my kids have been out of school since before Memorial Day; for us, summer is already long past half over.
Their return to school feels particularly imminent in this household because the month of July is already so jam-packed. (This includes book tour events in Bethesda, Maryland on July 30, events you should attend, and personally come by and say hi.) We have this upcoming week floating around a lake in South Carolina, then the trip to LA, then a baseball trip to St. Louis, then the trip to Washington, DC, and then next thing you know school is back in session and I’ve got to start the new book and football is happening again and we’re all back in the swing of it. I barely even noticed it was summer and now it’s almost over.
I was going over all this running around this week with my mother, who is training for her first half-marathon and thus particularly focused on structure and scheduling at the moment. She went over all the doctor’s appointments she and my father have, as well as a trip to Las Vegas for my father’s 76th birthday…
