Cabin Notes: home is where the dog is

November 20, 2024

I sat down to write this from the living room floor of my parents’ place in McCall at the very dark hour of 7am. I always forget that much of Idaho is merely a timezone borderland, where morning people are banished into the dark and night owls get to dance with the sun. The baby and I rose in utter darkness at 6am, indiscernible from 3am, and the dead o…