My Exploding Head

Seriously… I have one

Photo by David Monje on Unsplash

I have an exploding head. Having one’s head explode by hearing or seeing something out of the normal has become a comic mannerism — putting both hands up to one’s head and making exploding gestures.

But it’s a real syndrome and at first it can be frightening.

My first “explosion” occurred a few years after my father died. He’d never been a father who showed…