“All This Okayness” and I Suddenly Can’t Write

“Stop it and give yourself a chance.”
Aaron T. Beck, father of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

“You can dance.
You can jive.”
ABBA

By Nina Gaby

My last piece of completed writing was about the copper sinks we left behind in the 1792 cape we were abandoning. See? I have to use a loaded word like abandon to get the juice running. We sold the house we should have sold decades ago to move into an arty neighborhood in our hometown where we’ve wanted to return for years. The couple that boug...