The numbers: Day one, 11 hours on the road. Day two, three hours. Got over 40 mpgs in the new Corolla. Last night we slept ten hours.

It is very beautiful. This is the most beautiful place we’ve stayed thus far…

We’re going to rise before dawn tomorrow, roll out of bed, try to get everything into the car and hit the road. And then G. puts his big brain to work earning his degree and I…well, you know how there’s this phase of writing…

Okay, we’re not back in SLC quiiiite yet, but the fact that it is finally time to pack and clean and come home is just too exciting. I can hold it in no longer. Anyway, it’s good to start catching up on the old…

Some time in the last 24 hours I’ve hit the wall here, just like I did at week 5 last summer. I miss Salt Lake and all my friends there and our porch. I’m tired of our tiny kitchen here and the same four…

While G. was in class this morning, I sat in the school library and read Jenny Han’s Shug cover to cover. I can’t remember ever reading anything that captured so well what it feels like to make that awful/magical/lifechanging transition into junior high….