Ten.One Thousand & Seventy-Five

1. No alarm. Still too early.

2. Shivering trees.

3. All the baby snails.

4. Coffee and the latest issue of Bon Appetit. I see a familiar face, and then another, and another. Their faces make me smile.

5. I remind her that it’s hard enough to be a mother, let alone a Black mother. So just do what you need to do.

6. She asks us for our name and walks away. Then she comes back and says that it’s nice to put a face with the name from Instagram finally. I giggle a bit. He tells her that we love them, their farm.

7. The email says she came to my blog because she was in an online writing class through Seattle’s Hugo House, and the instructor shared me and my blog with them and that they wrote their own 10 Things. And then I wonder if on the new blog I remembered a footnote about the 10 Things and how I started writing. And then I wonder if I should care that people are teaching. And, should I be excited that an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing liked my words so much that she felt compelled to write to me?

8. Craving Boont Corner cheese.

9. Love Drunk Rosé.

10. I’ve always had this dream.