Changes to the sandwich

At Life in the Sandwich, Susan Ito has a poignant essay about the changes in her life as her daughter heads off to college:

There are six days left until five of us board an airplane that will take us two thousand miles away, and a few days after that, only four of us will return. Our sandwich is thinning, and the turmoil I’m feeling is barely describable.

“Packing” is a must read.