{"id":22153,"date":"2026-03-11T12:29:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T12:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/uncategorized\/life-in-the-slow-lane-suits-nprs-amy-eddings\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:13:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:13:39","slug":"life-in-the-slow-lane-suits-nprs-amy-eddings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/positive-living\/health-and-wellness\/life-advice\/finding-life-purpose\/life-in-the-slow-lane-suits-nprs-amy-eddings\/","title":{"rendered":"Life in the Slow Lane Suits NPR’s Amy Eddings"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI can\u2019t wait until this is over.\u201d Lately I\u2019d noticed my husband, Mark, and me saying this to each other a lot. It was our mantra all through the long, bitter Ohio winter, one we felt acutely in our drafty new home.<\/p>\n

The house was a gorgeous pistachio-colored century-old Queen Anne Victorian in Ada, a village about two hours south of Cleveland, where I\u2019d grown up in the suburbs and where my parents still lived. My sister\u2019s house was down the street from us.<\/p>\n

Four months earlier, I had quit my high-profile job as a public-radio journalist in New York City. My husband had retired early from his own successful radio career and we had moved to Ada to reconnect with our families, step back from our relentless pursuit of achievements and find a more peaceful, God-centered focus for our lives.<\/p>\n

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So far what we\u2019d found was a charming, affordable old house that needed a lot <\/em>of work.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t wait until this is over,\u201d Mark and I said with a grimace as we heated soup on a hot plate in the living room while blue-shirted Amish men knocked the plaster from the walls of our outdated kitchen.<\/p>\n

And that was only the beginning of the work. The house needed an exterior paint job, new insulation, and drainage for a flood-prone basement. We were planning to build a rental apartment over the freestanding garage to supplement our income, which at the moment consisted of our savings and Mark\u2019s recent inheritance from his mother.<\/p>\n

I had hoped to make some money as a freelance journalist. But those hopes were dimming as I found out how difficult and financially unrewarding that work can be. I\u2019d started looking for a full-time job. Meanwhile, the money in our savings account was evaporating by the day.<\/p>\n

I thought I\u2019d sensed a clear call from God to leave New York and embrace a different set of values. I thought Mark and I were going to slow down, to live in the heartland\u2014in the full sense of that word\u2014spending more time with the people we cared about.<\/p>\n

But here we were in a rambling old house filled top to bottom with noise and dust. We had a to-do list that stretched to the heavens. We were anxious and afraid. What had prompted us to move here? I found it increasingly hard to remember.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t wait until this is over.\u201d Ironically, it was those very words that had brought us to Ada in the first place. Mark and I had said or thought them nearly every day in our 600-square-foot apartment in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

There we slept on a sofa bed because our bedroom doubled as the living room. We hauled our dirty clothes two blocks to the Laundromat (and crossed our fingers that the other customers didn\u2019t have bedbugs).<\/p>\n

We relied on our smart phones to tell us the weather forecast because we were unable to read the mood of the sky. It was blocked from our view by other buildings and by an acanthus tree that hovered over our back window like a security gate.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t wait until this is over and we find our Forever Home,\u201d I announced to Mark one day, eyeing the unmade sofa bed. \u201cBecause this isn\u2019t it.\u201d<\/p>\n

I was the afternoon-drive newscaster and local host of National Public Radio\u2019s All Things Considered <\/em>at WNYC, the largest public-radio station in the country. I\u2019d been doing the job for 10 years and could easily have done it for 20 more.<\/p>\n

It was creative and stimulating. My colleagues were funny and smart. The work was absorbing and important. It paid me well and gave me an audience of hundreds of thousands of listeners.<\/p>\n

It was exactly the life I\u2019d hoped for when I moved to New York three decades earlier, escaping what I feared would be a boring, predictable adulthood in suburban Cleveland. So why on earth had I decided to move back to Ohio?<\/p>\n

It all started when my husband\u2019s oldest sister, Peggy, came to the end stage of her 20-year battle against breast cancer. Peggy lived in Chicago, where most of Mark\u2019s immediate family was\u2014too far for us to visit regularly. We followed her progress through weekly calls to my mother-in-law.<\/p>\n

The distance made us feel helpless. Our calls and the cards we sent\u2014\u201cWe\u2019re praying for you!\u201d \u201cWe\u2019re thinking of you!\u201d\u2014felt paltry.<\/p>\n

Eight months after Peggy died, Mark\u2019s mother too was gone. She went into the hospital for knee-replacement surgery, contracted an infection and didn\u2019t recover.<\/p>\n

I began thinking more and more of my own parents, back in Ohio. They were healthy now. But inevitably the time would come when they would need help. What would I do then? Offer them encouragement over the phone?<\/p>\n

The summer after Peggy died, Mark and I visited my sister and her family in Ada. We looked forward to these annual trips. We\u2019d sit on my sister\u2019s front porch watching thunderstorms roll past.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t have kids of our own, so we loved taking my nieces to corn mazes or exploring the backyard with them, picking lavender and holding the fragrant blue-gray spikes under our noses. We joked about ditching our jobs and moving to Ada.<\/p>\n

We especially liked to dream about buying that spacious Victorian house up the road, the one painted pistachio green with the wraparound porch and attic turret.<\/p>\n

Then my sister called to tell us the house was for sale. I knew I\u2019d never leave my Forever Job, even for an Ohio Forever Home. Still, I asked my sister to call the real-estate agent to show us the house when we were in town\u2014just to see what it looked like inside.<\/p>\n

It turned out that the seller had dropped the price. Is it a sign from God? <\/em>Mark and I wondered. No, we said, shaking our heads. We couldn\u2019t leave all we\u2019d built in New York. We just couldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

My sense of what was possible changed the moment the agent let us in the door.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh my God,\u201d I intoned.<\/p>\n

I meant it. The house inspired awe and wonder. It was beautiful. Panels of deep brown solid oak reached halfway up the walls. A wide, gracious staircase led to the second floor. There was a formal dining room and a parlor, a vestibule, a fireplace and an attic. And that enchanting little turret that made me feel like a princess in a fairy tale.<\/p>\n

My nieces oohed and ahhed and ran upstairs to check out the bedrooms. \u201cAunt Amy!\u201d the youngest yelled down to us. \u201cI want the purple room when we sleep over!\u201d<\/p>\n

I was seized with a need so strong, it almost felt like duty. \u201cWe have to live here,\u201d I said, turning to Mark with tears in my eyes.<\/p>\n

It was ridiculous, really. All this house, for just Mark and me? But in that moment, standing in the foyer, I envisioned more than just us in this house. I saw it filled with family and friends, old and new. They\u2019d come here for card games and writing workshops, potluck dinners and lectures.<\/p>\n

And I saw myself defined by something more than my Forever Job. I was not my talents or my paycheck or my tens of thousands of listeners. I was a daughter, a sister, an aunt, a wife. I was a friend and a mentor. The life that had seemed predictable and boring to a teenager suddenly seemed the kind most worth living.<\/p>\n

It felt like a new path was opening before me. A new definition of a life well traveled and well lived.<\/p>\n

There was freedom in that path, a sense that I could step away from frenetic New York and take my time exploring alternatives. There was also, as Peggy\u2019s and my mother-in-law\u2019s deaths reminded me, no time at all. If we were going to do this, I thought, we would have to do it now. It would be a leap of faith.<\/p>\n

Mark and I bought the house. We packed up our New York apartment, I said goodbye on the air and just like that we were heading to Ohio, into a new life.<\/p>\n

We still felt as if we were waiting for that new life to begin.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t wait until this is over,\u201d Mark and I kept saying as house repairs multiplied and our bank account shrank. When were we going to have that more peaceful, purposeful life we\u2019d moved to Ada to find?<\/p>\n

Until, one day, I realized that maybe Mark and I already were <\/em>living that life. Maybe all the chaos and unpredictability was exactly what we needed. The renovations and the job search were forcing us to slow down, take stock, pray more, appreciate each other more.<\/p>\n

Wasn\u2019t that what we came here to do? It was requiring me to keep listening to God, to keep trusting him.<\/p>\n

I thought back to that day when I stood in the foyer of this grand old house, suddenly seized with a vision of a different future. A future I never could have imagined back when all I wanted was to escape suburban Cleveland, move to New York City and make it big. God gave me a glimpse of the person I could become if I stepped forward in faith.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m still stepping forward. Every day I have to let go of my impatience to get through the messiness of life, knowing that God speaks loudest there. I\u2019m learning to trust that here, now, I\u2019m home at last.<\/p>\n

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