In this luminous collection of short stories and essays gleaned from her blog Girl from Goat Pasture Road, Susan Swicegood Boswell recounts the experiences of her personal journey into mid-life and beyond. The author has arrived at mid-age, burned out, bored and more than a little harried; her sense of humor and passion for adventure, however, are still intact. Buoyed by a cast of loyal friends and family members, The Long Way Home chronicles Boswell's struggles to make sense of a changing world that includes a newly empty nest, a growing pile of readers, a lost generation and her own missing...