Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield Guinevere was especially proud of her apple orchard. For it grew perfect apples, each identical in size and weight. To celebrate her last harvest of the season, she always sent 11 of the perfect apples to King Arthur on the 11th day of the 11th month. One year, as the carriage arrived to pick up Guinevere and her apples to deliver them to His Majesty’s castle, she noticed that there were not 11, but 12 apples in her pail! Ev

Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield Trying to counteract the anxiety that is now surging, I try to self soothe, tell myself that it’s likely Lyme disease. That’s the only thing that could make sense. On August 16, 2012, 43-year-old Meredith O’Brien tried to make herself comfortable on the examination table’s crinkly paper. The Massachusetts native had had another bout of numbness and facial palsy. What was going on? The seasoned journalist had narrowed down th

Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield PC: Arnaldo Anaya Lucca Stopping antibiotics when you have a stubborn case of Lyme disease might seem ludicrous. But I’ve been involved in far more ludicrous situations than I can count. Like the time I hit a pedestrian who literally jumped in front of my Toyota 4Runner while I was driving 50 mph, only to see him bound to his feet—just a flesh wound, apparently—and run away to the safety of a Home Depot, where he was promptl