A few weeks ago I was hunkered down in my little back-room office in our condo, having my Zoom session with my therapist, Patrick, and, at one point, out of the clear blue sky, he told me I was depressed. Apparently, I’d reported feeling bummed out for a few weeks in a row. Go figure. Now […]

So get this. In the second ring of hell in Dante’s Divine Comedy, the people are consigned to spend all of eternity split into two sides, trying to roll huge boulders at each other. While doing so, each team shouts ragefully. (If I remember right, one team is made up of people who, when alive, […]