COMMON WEALTH
On a Saturday during California’s “super bloom” season, we holed up in the one-room concrete bunker that is the Joshua Tree Branch Library. My wife, Carla, was working with the librarian to print documents. I sat at one of the few tables with windows, writing and periodically looking out at a Joshua tree framing the front entrance.
As lame as it may sound, our to-do list was growing. Life on the road hadn’t absolved us of work or daily tasks; in fact, flexible work is one of the reasons we ended up in this situation. We actually might be busier since we retreated from
