It Goes

jen murphy parker
14 min readSep 8, 2023

The College Drop-off Drop

We just dropped our son off for his freshman year at college.

Nights before flying back east to plant him in a new state, we went to dinner as a family in the city.

We got all dressed up because we were celebrating. Here he was — off to exciting new things! A big fat start to something! That’s what we were toasting: beginnings.

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jen murphy parker

Jen Murphy Parker is a San Francisco-based writer exploring what exists in the middle - of parenting, of health, of life.