Retrain Your Brain

One summer during high school, I set a dorm room on fire. I didn’t mean to. I was boarding at a college campus in rural Massachusetts for a week-long lacrosse camp. It turns out that when you stuff a plastic bag with rags soaked in linseed oil (which my roommate Karenna and I dutifully applied to our wooden lacrosse sticks at bedtime), it’s pretty flamm…