Martha Davis Patton is a retired associate professor of English who kept a blog for two years while serving in the Peace Corps in China (post-retirement).
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Embracing Inconvenience
But we can—we really can imagine and live with fewer “conveniences”—and even like it. At the risk of being an outlier today, I’ll continue to take the long way, the inconvenient way, for you, Julia—and for your generation.
November 7, 2018