We’ll be spending tonight in the fourth different bed in six nights. We’re dog sitting at a classic mid-century Palm Springs home. It’s very geometric and one rectangle leads to the next, but I always feel like each is incomplete in itself or somehow is itself plus a half....

     We’re in the first of several temporary homes after leaving our apartment. I can’t disclose the location, but this gal is one of the other residents.      Mary used the metaphor of being in the witness protection program; she also used the word “vagabond.” I related the story...