A story for post number 715

There’s been a few times where I have tied something I wrote in this space to the number of the post. Yes, I do keep track of how many posts I’ve put into this space. And this is the 715th post I’ve written, in the year and-a-half I’ve been at this. There’s only one thing

And the first shall be first

When each of us was in school, we all learned pretty quickly where we fell in the alphabetical listing of students in the class. Teachers had us listed that way in their grade books, and whenever the roll call was made, we knew if we would be called near the front, in the middle, or