Writing with Aphasia, the Disorder That Steals Your Words

I couldn’t remember the word ‘algorithm.’

I was giving a presentation on social media, my expertise, and could not remember the word ‘algorithm,’ a word I used nearly daily. It disappeared from my brain like it never existed at all.

I knew what a brain fart was and this was not that. Humiliated from my brain, yet again, pulling one over on me, I wanted …