Sara Tucker is a writer and editor who left New York City and a job with Conde Nast Traveler to move back to her hometown of Randolph, Vermont, population 5,000. She now teaches writing and lives with her mother, Idora, and her husband, Patrick Texier, a safari guide whom she met in Tanzania. Life is full of surprises. Her blog is The Hale Street Gang and Me, at silverscribblers.blogspot.com.