Tolkien (and other loves of my life)
Tag: Anxiety disorder
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The Feast of the Annunciation at 35,000 Feet
Panic attack disorder really messes with you. It stops you from doing the things you really want to do. It prevents you from enjoying life. And because—intellectually—you know the fear it generates is irrational, it not only steals life from you, but leaves you feeling guilty for letting it. “If only I could have been…
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In Her Honor
Elementary school spoiled fiction for me early on. In the thousand different children’s books I was fed about young boys roughing it on the frontier with their hound dogs and their shotguns (the result, perhaps, of growing up in a “pioneer” state) there was nothing I could relate to. I was a fast reader, a…
