Have we told you this story? We met the McEwans on a train from York, England to London in September 2009, when we were on our home-school launch trip. When we got on the train in York, we discovered that Mary Jo and Andy were sitting in our seats (which were also their seats, as the reservation system had double-booked us). We sat down in empty seats next to them and ended up talking for the entire two-hour journey to London. By the time we arrived in London, we had decided to correspond. When Natalie started sending them issues of her “Applewood Quarterly,” Andy would respond with wonderful letters, which…
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Find Your Own Story
There are times in one’s life when the story we’ve been living simply doesn’t feel like it fits anymore. It might even make us feel unwell or unhappy. It can be scary to step out of the old story and find a new story, but it’s worth it if you know that a healthier and happier future is a possibility. I think of it as embracing “uncertain happiness” vs. “certain unhappiness.” It’s ever so tempting to hang on to certainty even if it guarantees unhappiness, because it’s so darned familiar. For our family, we hit one of these forks in life’s road and we chose to find a new story…
