Talking with myself

Weird habit or normal?

I confess: I replay or create conversations aloud. I expound. I pontificate. I argue. I talk in the bathroom. I talk when folding laundry. I talk when walking the dogs. I practice for an upcoming doctor’s appointment, a phone call, an argument. I have talked aloud ever since I can remember.

Over the years, I’ve managed to rein it in, but more times than I care to admit I’ll be talking away in the house, thinking I’m alone, and then turn the corner to see my hus...