Today, I fed my depression. I gave it a huge plate of steaming, saucy pasta with cheese and tender meatballs. After that, I let it consume the remnants of a crinkled bag of chocolate chips, one after another. I gave it a bowl of frozen yogurt. I tried to stuff it down, to cover it, to […]
Our Struggle To Speak
The other day, at one of my favorite lunch haunts, there was a man ahead of me in line who was struggling to speak. He had an impediment that made his words difficult to understand. I’m making an assumption, but his hearing and other faculties seemed to be just fine. He just had trouble forming words […]