Interruptions, Nourishing and Maddening

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I had mapped out the details for a second trip to California in celebration of our wedding anniversary. It would be an orchestrated drive down the Pacific Coast Highway from San Francisco to Huntington Beach, staying in bed-and-breakfast inns along the way. I was eager to walk the beach in Carmel again, and I had decided to take Robinson Jeffers' poetry with me—intending to read his words during our drive south. This, as it turned out, was impossible because Jim took the undulant coastal...