On the table in the coach's cottage, while Griff was at Sacramento Valley College, Caydance spread out a large sheet of mulberry paper on which a few drawings already appeared. The subject of this fragile manuscript was the environment of her life since her marriage. Today, she would draw scenes from last week's game.

To begin, she plugged the game film of the Huygens Humboldt game into the video slot, pressed play.

She could have brought a camera to the football field, but photographing the game would have isolated her behind the camera to the point that the photography would be primary, and the experience of the game would become secondary.

Initially, she had intended to draw the entire Huygens Offense spread out on the line of scrimmage before the first play of the first possession. Her vision had been to convey the tension of suspended action. But instead, she selected three scenes to draw separately. The first was the Huygens Quarterback River Angelos throwing the ball from within the pocket. She paused the game film just as the ball left his hands.

She was so engrossed in drawing this scene that if she had not set an alarm, she would have forgotten to punch down the risen dough for the pizza crust and kneed it until the dough was smooth and felt and behaved exactly right.

When she was drawing, like the ringing of telephones, alarms were intrusive, but the pizza she was making for Griff's arrival home after the Sac Valley game required perfect pizza crust, as well as fresh tomato sauce, shredded Mozzarella, roast garlic, oil cured olives, Italian sausage, roast red peppers, and grated parmesan.