Longest Hours - thoughts while waiting

by Melody Mann (editor), Judy Callarman (Editor), Becky Haigler (Editor)

Whether you idly wonder about the people you follow in line or chew that last fingernail while papers are being graded; whether you file your taxes while on hold or file your nails in traffic jams; whether you have bused tables, busted a bone, or merely stood in the rain for a bus, you have joined the millions, past and present, who have waited. It doesn’t matter whether you are anticipating a happy event or dreading an unsure outcome, that particular tension associated with marking time has gripped us all.

We anguish and pace or kneel and pray as we wait for news, a name to be called, a change in fortune, our turn, a beginning, or an end. We have kept all-night vigils, counting the seconds that span the chasm between wondering and knowing. And we have charged into the breach willy-nilly because we can’t stand to sit idly by. Whatever the course of action, the goal is always the same: make the time go faster.

Keep us company as we share our musings...fears, joys, and observations while waiting.

240 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 25, 2013