Stolen Words: COVID, Ketamine, and Me

One day you realize that you’ve lost your mind. One day words are lost, and you search for them but there is a hole in your brain where the words used to be. You struggle to breathe. I scribbled these words during 2020’s pandemic spring when I realized I had lost the ability to write. Not to physically jot down words. Those came in a profusion that tumbled out everywhere, like raindrops. The issue for me, as we moved into summer, was not being able to focus and write something coherent. When autumn came, with a second surge of anguish,… Read Full Article