It is 5:06 p.m. We’ve been at Barnes & Nobel for almost three hours. When we got here, I thought we might be here no more than a couple of hours, perhaps less. What is amazing is that as I look across the table at Kate, I see that she is working intently on her iPad. She hasn’t moved since we arrived. She is doing the only thing she does on her iPad, working jigsaw puzzles. Over the past two-to-three weeks, she has spent almost no time in the yard. She must average 6-8 hours a day.
(At this point, she looked at me and gave me the look that says, “It’s time to go.” We decided to go to the restroom and then to have an early dinner.)
Here’s the rest of the story that started at Barnes & Noble. I was saying that Kate has not been working outside much in the past few weeks. That means her only activity is working jigsaw puzzles on her iPad. Starting as much as a year ago, she began to have some difficulties with the puzzles. This meant she relied on me to straighten things out every time she got in trouble. That has improved substantially in recent weeks. It is nice to report that something is better. I have a tendency to think that everything only gets worse.
My concern now is that if she lost interest in her puzzles, she would be left with nothing. That would be a serious problem. Watching her today gives me renewed hope that she will continue to pursue this activity for the indefinite future.
