Choices

Once you attain a certain number of years, you gain the ability to divine which of the choices you made during your life had the greatest impact. Over the decades, I have made many choices, some good, many bad, but only one momentous.

Those who know me might assume it was the decision to be a writer, but that fails on two counts. First of all, what makes you think I had a choice? Writing choses you, not the other way around. It’s a sort of mental illness that only intense psychoanalysis and/o...