I have my new chariot – a Toyota SUV – to ride through the arctic blasts of the library tour. To Granville, the Pember Library, 2 p.m. Sunday in the bracing cold, and then on to Cobleskill, Salisbury, Conn., Richboro, Pa., Providence, R.I., Osterville and Scituate, Mass., and Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard, if we don’t get blown off of the ferry. Bringing good technology – Ipad, Maria’s laptop, Ipod, Canon Camera, some lenses, cell phone.

This is the first transport I have owned since coming to the farm that wasn’t a truck. I like the new mileage and the ride. I don’t know how many hardy souls will come up to join us, but however many do, we will celebrate the importance of libraries, and the need for them to be preserved. And talk about writing, dogs, animals, books, grieving for pets, and anything else people want to ask me about. And I will sign anything anyone wants me to sign, including body parts.