I'll never forget the train ride home after Christmas that year, as every clack of the wheels pulled me further & further away from her.

When astronauts go through re-entry, they may be coming back home to some semblance of "normal" but no one expects re-entry to be simple.

"If stories come to you, care for them....learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food."

My first discovery of the use of dialog in journaling was back in the mid-1980s, not long after I moved to Charlottesville.