I plod through the week more distracted than usual without my normally-bottomless energy to keep my spirits up. It seems the secret to getting the insects in my blood to lie still is to just expose the raw and painful truths I’ve ignored for decades.

I’m so busy feeling like shit about being a shitty parent and a shitty spouse that I damn near forget about the team leads morning meeting. We’re facing a new fiscal year and Kellen says we need to summarize our ...