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I’ve often quoted, in various contexts, these lines from T. S. Eliot: ‘This is the way the world ends/This is the way the world ends/This is the way the world ends/Not with a bang, but a whimper.’ It occurs to me now that they have a fitting application to the slow death of this blog.

That most astounding wit in all fiction, Elizabeth Bennet, remarked that she and Mr Darcy were alike in being ‘unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.’ And this again is a quotation apt for my long absence. Several times since my marriage (which, by the way, took place in March, not May), I’ve sat down thinking to write a quick update, only to change my mind because that just didn’t seem like a dramatic enough comeback after an absence that rapidly lengthened from six months to eight to nearly a year.

All excuses, apologies, and random literary quotations aside, I’m going to make a fresh start and act like I’ve started a new blog. Hopefully, I will eventually work up to my original content output. In the weeks ahead I’ll be writing some personal things on the changes the last year has brought to me and my family (including that long-put-off courtship story, already in progress!)–I got married; became, for the time being, a city dweller (though never a city girl!); my BLB (big little brother) got married only three months after I did; and Tyler and I are now expectant parents (due in April!), to list our top stories–and possibly some other things.

The only sure way to conquer writer’s block is to write, as difficult as it is. Just these two little, unimportant scribbles are quickly loosening my creativity back up. So, welcome back to ‘Live Like A Narnian’, Emily Upchurch’s blog!

 

(this is a sampling of what I’ve been up to while I’ve been not-blogging)

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