When my daughter was born last year, I was fifty-three years old. I’d wanted a child so badly for so long, and her arrival may well be the most wonderful thing ever to happen to me. And yet I cannot ...

I discovered I had aphantasia by accident. When you live your entire life without a “mind’s eye”, it seems completely normal to visualize nothing when remembering people and places, or imagining the ...

A few things happened as I ran my errands, and they put me in mind of an 1804 poem by the English Romantic, William Wordsworth. I was reminded that, despite a few unfamiliar words, perhaps, his ...