In the dream, she explains to me that they only spend time reviewing this set of work. Everything is material, but it’s not the meat of the work.

Dentist day. Ugh.

“Stop touching the computer, and get your shoes on!” I shouldn’t have to yell on vacation.

A young girl sits down across from me and she tilts her head to read the spine of my book. I want to ask her what she likes to read, but maybe that’s weird coming from a stranger in a mask.

No Beyblade talk yet.

He will be thirteen tomorrow. Thirteen.

I write the doctor a note. We need a more holistic view, is what I say.

Big white moon through the silhouette of bare branches.

The conversation soothes me.

What I really want is a glass of 2018 Heitz Quartz Creek Chardonnay. Those three bottles went so quickly.