We are moving back to Chicago! Wahoo!

There will be things about Nashville that I will miss, and people I will miss even more. I scarcely noticed any of them until I heard we’d be leaving. But I have spent way too much of my life pining for the past and squelching my own happiness for the sake of a really good snide remark. For once I am going to let myself be wholly excited by the next new adventure.

And that should be easy enough, because this time, part of our future lies in the past. After a year of wondering why in the heck we moved away from a gigantic network of family and friends we love, we are coming home!

Is that a cop-out? I don’t even care. For generations, everyone in my family has lived their entire lives in Chicago. I wanted to do something different, to go someplace else. But it took going someplace else to really recognize why no one ever left Chicago. My family weren’t homebodies, they were geniuses. Chicago is the best place in the world! Why would you ever want to leave?

If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t look any further than my own backyard. Because if it isn’t there, I never really lost it to begin with!