Maybe Not

I didn’t always live in the woods.

I grew up in a fairly ordinary suburb, in a town that always seemed to be on the verge of becoming poor. The economy was fueled by the nearby military base, as well as a couple of large corporations with offices nearby. There were, when I was small, four elemetary schools. When I was in high school, two were closed. The town was shrinking.

Now I couldn’t afford to live there. Back then, it was the also-ran cousin of its more mannered, historically signifi...