Yes! I actually just ran a poll of my readers to find out if everyone who asked for a sequel to Yeah, maybe when they first read it are still interested in seeing one! I’m about halfway through a book project that has nothing to do with YM, but the subject matter is a little too close to home for me right now. So I’m in the process of outlining a sequel! Let’s keep each other accountable 🙂

Oh girl yes! I see pictures from my time at App on Sanford mall and just think “girl, you had it so good.” And then I look back at my journals from that time and realize that the smile on my face was just a mask. I was dealing with some dark demons. We were just young enough to be naive to what was around the corner. Things are pretty good right now, too. It’s sad that what we focus on is what becomes bigger–if that makes sense. So the stress ends up being all I see. I’m doing my best to work on that now.

I think about previous periods of my life too with the same nostalgia you describe and I pretend things were easier then. They weren’t. The challenges were different, but they were there. And the only reason those periods seem so much more manageable now is that I know already survived them once. I know I’ll survive these challenges too, but there’s no proof yet. I think that’s what causes us to look back at “simpler times” that really weren’t so simple for the people we used to be.