She doesn’t know if my letter arrived because she doesn’t want her neighbors to see her walking out to the mailbox at noon, which is when the mail is delivered. Her neighbors have a protestant work ethic and nine-to-five lives. She’ll have to wait until five to check the mail, she laughs. She’s on sabbatical, writing a book. But her neighbors don’t know this. She doesn’t want them to think she isn’t working.
