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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

Paradoxes make catchy openers, don’t they?

In a way, this peerless opening line of Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities expresses my current state of being.

It’s the best of times: I am writing every day and feel increasingly confident that this is what I am meant to do. “Vocation is where our deep gladness meets the world’s great need”, said Buechner, and I wholeheartedly agree. Writing is my vocation, and I am deliriously grateful tha...