After my dental appointment today in Lexington, I stopped by the supermarket in Concord for a few things – honey mustard, oatmeal, orange juice – that are cheaper at that supermarket than anywhere else.\u00a0 As I walked from my car to the store, I saw Louise, the mom of one of my former tutoring students, whom I haven’t seen in six or eight months,\u00a0loading grocery bags into her minivan.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Hi, Louise,” I said, and she looked up and smiled.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Hi, Abby!\u00a0 How are you?”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Silently, and quickly, I reviewed my less-than-wonderful, fairly traumatic summer in my head, and thought about the sore throat that just cropped up this morning.\u00a0 “Ok,” I said, “Surviving…How ’bout you?”<\/p>\n
Louise looked at me for a second, then said, “Good, we’re good.”\u00a0 A second of silence as she thought, and changed the subject, “Are you still tutoring?”<\/p>\n
We talked very briefly about the neutral topic of tutoring, and then said goodbye – Louise continued to load her groceries, and I walked quickly into the store.\u00a0 And we probably won’t see each other again for another six months, or even a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After my dental appointment today in Lexington, I stopped by the supermarket in Concord for a few things – honey mustard, oatmeal, orange juice – that are cheaper at that supermarket than anywhere else.\u00a0 As I walked from my car to the store, I saw Louise, the mom of one of my former tutoring students, … Continue reading Unsaid<\/span>