I begin my blog with a phrase, one my wife said to me coyly when we were dating. I would ask her how much she loved me, and she answered, from here to there. Suggesting an indefinable quantity. A vague notion like from now to forever.

It made me smile because it was a phrase unique to her. It was cute and teasing. The writer in me loves these little details in people’s characters.

So it is this phrase that rings through my head as I look ahead at a career in writing. More specifically, chasing...