Chapter 6
Miranda
Caleb snoozes behind a National Geographic with grizzly bears on the cover most of the morning. He doesn’t move from the couch until lunchtime, when he makes us turkey sandwiches, which he serves with a bowl of mixed nuts.
I help clean up the kitchen, then sit down and catalogue the few tree ring samples I took. When I finish, I take notes on my tablet for my research, then spend a few hours editing a proposal I happened to save onto the tablet as well. There’s no WiFi and my cell phone doesn’t work, so I can’t check emails or get any business correspondence done.
When I’ve exhausted all the work I can do without my laptop, I turn off the tablet.
“Well, I’m out of things to do,” I announce, even though Caleb’s not into conversation. “I can’t believe you don’t have an
