Divorce Day

How I’m spending my first day as a divorcée, and the moment a Dutch word blew my mind.

Onward. Me, during a hike in Azerbaijan.

In therapy in California last year, session after session, one word kept springing to my mind. Unhelpfully, it was in Dutch.

“Wegcijferen.”

My therapist gave a look of calm bemusement. “Can you tell me what that is in English?”