Letter From The Desert: Leap

When I moved to the Ivanpah Valley I was bleeding. My marriage was a smoking crater. My dog was 15 months in the ground. Running away was the only thing that made sense.

There’s an oft-quoted line from Robert Frost’s “The Death of a Hired Man” that goes

Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
they have to take you in.

that I’ve often used to e…