There are many children already back at their desks .. reconnecting with old friends .. decorating their lockers and thumbing through new textbooks ..

Our first day back to school will soon be here.

Thursday – registration day. New school. New teachers, hallways, school pic and locker.

One right, two back left, one right. Right?

“If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting but I would have to decline, for life would no longer teach me anything.” ~ Allyson Jones

Some meetings are over coffee.

Others .. not so much.

It was already a long week and it had hardly started when a girlfriend I haven’t seen all summer called and said, “I’m back in town.  Can we meet quick to catch up?”

Pasquals.

“Yes.  Yes, I would really like that,” I replied.