FM is the station cat at Robin Hood Radio, WUDD, Salisbury, Conn., the country’s smallest NPR station.

I am not only loving libraries but loving librarians, smart, focused, dedicated people. This may  be the best and most meaningful book tour I’ve ever been on. We are heading to Providence, where a good sized Northeaster is going to meet us tonight. Tomorrow, I will return to my hometown library at 7 p.m,, and then go onto Massachusetts Friday and Saturday. I am going to meet some powerful memories, show Maria the place of my childhood, walk about Providence and meet some ghosts.

I am going to my parents graves to say goodbye, walking around Brown, which I haunted as a kid fantasizing about being a writer. Now I am a writer. And will confront a part of myself that I need to see and say goodbye too, not in drama but in peace and gratitude. Because it made me who I am, and I like who I am.