I haven’t updated this blog since BlogHer. That’s the longest hiatus I’ve taken from writing here since I started about 16 months ago.
It’s not that BlogHer put me off blogging; far from it. The conference was incredibly inspiring. I made great connections, had a lot of fun, and left feeling more inspired than ever as a writer and a blogger.
But after that intensity of four days in New York City, I stopped by my home in Boston long enough to swap out the contents of my suitcase and visit with a few friends, then took off again for Maine. I’ve been sitting by a lake outside Bangor for about 10 days now, soaking up the sunshine and silence.
There’s been so much moving and changing for me this summer: I closed my preschool, became a full-time freelance writer, traveled the world. I’ve been living out of a suitcase since the middle of June. My coven suspended it’s regular meetings after almost five years. My husband and I spent some intense weeks figuring out what our marriage means to us, and reshaping the container of our life together.
Taking a few weeks of silence up here in Maine feels like giving myself time to change and grow, to catch up with the new life I’ve made around myself.
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