Closer to the Finish Line

What I Should Have Done Tonight:

Grade papers


What I am Doing Instead:

Working on the book.

Oh, it's all falling into place, the way a ball of yarn, tangled and snarled, begins to smooth out with patient unknotting. Ten pages to go. Years and years of work, research, talking to relatives, uncertainty, always the fear that the writing wasn't good enough. Time soon to let it all go. I can't believe it! No matter what happens beyond this, I am proud I wrote this book.