The Writing Odyssey - written in 2002

I wrote this essay a year before my illness. Sometimes I look at what I wrote then and wish I had my brain back. But the illness cracked my self-possession. I might not write as well now, but I feel more.

My cell phone clutched in my hand, I looked unseeingly out of the skylight, which was covered by the gray icy fingers of rain.

"I am flabbergasted," I s…