Reflections on Identity

Buying Bananas Brought Me to My Knees

An existential crisis at the grocery store

Photo: Anna Tukhfatullina Food Photographer / Stylist on Unsplash

A few days after I delivered my first child to college, I went to the grocery store. I shop almost every day, unwilling to plan meals more than a day ahead, finding that whatever quantity I bought in advance would be all wrong and have to be adjusted according to…