Penultimate

This was number 14. Fourteen first days of school. You get them up, give them something to eat, make sure they're ready to take on the world. Even if they do have a broken foot.

D-'s a junior in high school. He'll have a challenging year. A lot of tough courses. He's up to the challenge.

If you think the calendar says summer ends on September 21, you're wrong. You're looking at the wrong calendar. The school calendar is what counts even if you don't have children. Summer ends when school starts. The last day of summer was yesterday.

This was my penultimate first day of school. The next to last one. One more next year and that'll be it.

It was a good one.
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