I live with my husband on a small farm that we have no time to keep up with, unfortunately, because we both have way too many interests. My husband is an associate professor of visual arts who is a painter in his own right; I taught for almost twenty years at the same university, and now I am an ordained United Methodist Pastor, who spends a lot of time studying the cacophony of those who wrote the texts that we call the Bible. And in the midst of that studying, I pretend, from time to time, that I am a writer of some sort, holding on to how I thought my life would turn out.