They call them tests. Unlike in school, it required no preparation on my part–my performance had little to do with the outcome. The completion of such tests didn’t move me closer to a tangible achievement; there was no diploma on the horizon. The whole point, as explained to me by the agency, was to get …
I have experienced kindness. It was the most important thing that’s happened to me in under four minutes. Yesterday I was on the bumpiest flight I’ve ever been on and I’ve been on a few. I was flying back to Austin after a week of hopping around the South, capping off days of planes, trains …
Anonymous Guest Submission If I had to select one word to describe depression, it would be this: paralyzing. I had always thought of depression as an affliction of the mind, and symptomatically, of the emotions. And it certainly is. But what it also is is what I had no warning of nor defense toward: a …