Blinded

On Thursday evening – four days ago – I got in a car crash. It was bad. It was also my fault.

I was driving through the middle of nowhere – headed North along the coast, on my way to be with a friend in crisis. The sun was at that point just above the horizon when it’s blazing directly into your eyes, and you have to flick the visor from side to side to side with one hand while you steer with the other just to see the pavement ahead of you.

I didn’t expect a stop sign anywhere along that partic...