Earlier this month, the Williams family moved from Carrollton, Georgia, our home for thirteen years (for me) and eighteen years (for Dan), to Ashland, Ohio. Our earthly possessions will rejoin us in the coming week (hooray for books and furniture!). Then on August 1st, Dan will officially begin a new job at the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University, while I am beginning a new phase of my life as a full-time homeschooling mother and writer. I have written some thoughts about this vocational change back in May.
In some strange ways, this move is a bit of a homecoming for Dan, whose maternal grandparents moved to Akron, Ohio right after WWII, and raised their children in the area. He still has relatives in Akron; he also went to college just up the road at Case Western Reserve University. At some point soon, he will write an update on his new job—what he’s doing and why it matters.
But this coming week (07/24-07/28), to give me some space for sanity (okay, more likely, playing a week-long game of “what’s in this box?”) we’re going to take a break from new content on this blog—our first break since launching on February 1st! Because there have been so many wonderful essays on this blog about books—the what, why, and how of reading!—we are going to re-run some of this content for your enjoyment, just as you are looking perhaps for more beach reading recommendations.
And we’ll be back with new content on Monday, July 31st!