Driving

Anxiety and its other side

“High way and Byways” (1929), Paul Klee

I delivered pizza during high school, which meant a lot of time driving. So I invented a game to entertain myself: anytime my front tires were about to cross a shadow, I’d lightly tap the wheel, then tap again when the shadow had passed. The idea was my car was leaping over the shadows.

Around the same time, I ate …