I feel like I am seated at the table with all my quirks and inadequacies. I love Anne Lamott in these moment. This is another excerpt from Bird By Bird.

“…Then your mental illnesses arrive at the desk like your sickest, most secretive relatives. And they pull up chairs in a semicircle around the computer, and they try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath, leering at you behind your back.”