Acts of Surrender III: Out of My Mind

This installment of Acts of Surrender, my memoir-in-progress, covers my 1995 return to Toronto from Nova Scotia, where I wrote most of the first two drafts of The MoonQuest.

As summer evenings cooled into fall and this second draft of The MoonQuest wrote itself to completion, I could feel my time in Nova Scotia drawing to an end. A year earlier, the thought of an ultimate return to Toronto had spiraled me into uncontrollable panic. Now, to my surprise, I welcomed the return, even as I didn't k...