On efficiency

The Sunday Dreads Vol. 32

There are two ways to get from my mother-in-law’s house to our own. The one any maps app will choose is a freeway that slices through our city, high concrete walls on either side. The speed limit is 65, which in Phoenix means 85 or 90.

The other one meanders around one mountain and then another, through a few different neighborhoods, and deposits us at…