The two men seated beside me in that rickety bus headed for the mainland that afternoon laughed when the radio came on, and a presenter began to talk about the coronavirus. “Here we go again.” One said to the other. “Everything is all about...
My spouse, who had long noticed a shift in my mental state, in my moods—in how I began to react to stress—talked to me one night about getting therapy. But as one would expect, I was not fascinated by the idea. “Talk to some stranger I know nothing about?”...