Let me tell you a little about the history of Archaios, the project that has come to be the center of my creative life. I began writing it way back in 2007. I was 29 years old. I had only been married a couple of years, and I had a one-year-old kid crawling around. I had just completed my MA at St. John’s College in Santa Fe and moved back to my home state in Missouri. And I wasn’t really sure what I was doing in life.

I was half-heartedly applying to a few different graduate programs, but I didn...