RitualsNow that I'm single and dating again after nearly forty years of marriage, I'm finding I have a lot to catch up on.
“Jeffrey's not all there,” my friends had warned.
As he and I became friends, I saw strange behaviors but nothing too unusual. For instance, at dinner, he would first eat his mashed potatoes, then the bread, and then the vegetables, followed by the meat. He avoided mixing foods, making sure ample space between different foods existed on the plate so they didn't touch. He ate all of one before tackling another.
“Why not combine tastes?” I asked.
“Guess I can't break old habits,” he said.
After seeing him do this time and time again, it began to bother me a little. He would finish one entree, then pick up his plate and turn it so the next entree was directly in fron
