Top Ten List of Things You Would Not Want to Do Alone
First Draft
1. Change a tire on an 18 wheeler. Change all the tires on an 18 wheeler. Without a tire jack. On the side of a six-lane interstate.
2. Encounter a grizzly bear.
3. Breathe.
4. Pull the hair out of the mole in the middle of my back. (This is fiction and you will never know the rest of the story….. Repeat with a deep Transylvanian accent.)
5. Watch my child suffer a terminal disease.
6. Hike the Himalayas.
7. Have open heart surgery.
8. Navigate Mars in a doon buggy.
9. Waltz.
10. Write a book.
And…accept an award from the president of the United States for the Top 10 List.
(I’m expecting an agent and contract for this work!) Amen and Amen!
Your sleepy friend,
DaVinci’s Classroom Teacher
