Five names, five websites, hundreds of miles of red-rock desert, and a few weeks until your
Two weeks, eight states, about 2,400 miles of broken-up old road, and a thousand lists telling
Your phone has no bars, the next gas station is thirty miles down an exit road, and the overlook
You can feel it the moment you stand in front of a cracked outlet or a flickering light: it
Your dog is wonderful at home on the couch, and then a dog appears across the street, the
You have seen the photos: a blue glacier wall, a whale tail, a mountain with its head in the
The storm passes, the downspout runs for ten minutes, and a rope of clean-looking water flows
Someone at the table says, "We need a fourth," and you freeze: you have never played contract
You have a board, a free evening and a nagging feeling that everyone else already knows
The mower coughed twice and quit. The snowblower is buried in the garage with a storm on the
Someone slides a board full of tiny holes across the table, deals six cards each and says
You understand the words, but not the way your partner's family says them. Spanish in Puerto
That wobbly oak chair from your grandmother's kitchen, the thrift-store dresser with a sticky
Someone sets down two decks of cards, says "we are one short for canasta, you will pick it up as
Someone pulls out a deck, someone else says "you can be my partner, it's easy, just bid what
You have not flown in years, or you fly often but your body has changed, or you are the one who
