Hi Friends:

I'm just back from a two-week rail vacation in Canada. Pittsburgh-NewYork-Montreal-Quebec City-Halifax. You can get there by train! It was wonderfully relaxing; the trains are slow, allowing one to read a lot of books. The most impactful, for me, were In the Garden of the Beasts, by Erik Larson, and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot. Not new books, but ones I've been meaning to get to. Both nonfiction, both turning over rocks, revealing a real world beneath my nose that I never knew was there. That's one of the great pleasures of reading for me.

I hope you're all having a productive summer. I understand Brian O'Donnell has published an essay in his college mag. Looking forward to seeing that.

Feel free to continue to share and comment and put down what you know that no one else knows. Turn over those rocks. Warmly--Kristin