'I Don't Want My College Friends at My New Job!'

Maybe you thrive the most when you're challenged the most.

Arches (1962) by Helen Lundeberg

Dear Polly,

Beware! Here be pitiful and small things. Which is funny, because in my head there are at least 10 unwritten theoretical past letters, all of which contain actual dragons, in their full abstract glory. And yet the first time I actually write to you, it is about something so concrete. And small. And yet: I canno…