Counting by 7s

by Holly Goldberg Sloan

And endings are always the beginnings of something else.

She is like me. Silent. I admire that in a person. The ability to keep your mouth shut is usually a sign of intelligence. Introspection requires you to think and analyze. It’s hard to do that when you are blabbing away.

She’s there for me. And just being there is ninety-nine percent of what matters when your world falls apart.

What we expect rarely occurs; what we don’t expect is what happens.