Ten.One Thousand, Five Hundred & Eighty-One

1. Early, but not as early.

2. Cold feet. Where are my slippers?

3. Burnt bacon. That seems about right for a week like this one.

4. Graduated to the parking lot.

5. I end up saying a lot more than I meant to say, but it was a lot of truth, and that was necessary for explaining the whole thing.

6. Tasting Malbec from the keg and this is when I get wine on the sweater.

7. A little panicked.

8. We stand by the doors and watch him play with the big kids. The big, big kids. He doesn’t look so small running with the 16- and 17-year olds. “He’ll be here next year, you know,” I say. “I know.” “High school. High school,” I say.

9. Just can’t seem to look away.

10. “I can’t believe tomorrow is the last day.”