On a smoky morning in the Colorado mountains, as wildfires
raged not far away, Patricia accepted meals through the windows of her tiny blue
skoolie. She wasn’t well enough to come outside or join the community van-build
going on just outside her window, even though her fledgling home was far from
complete. You see, the Rocky Mountain wildfires weren’t the only ones raging
that day; there were two other fires burning right inside that little school
bus – the one she held in her heart and the other that flamed up in her leg.
