in her pajamas. “Why are you wearing that”
he asked. She felt like it. She wore unusual things
to each session. One time she dressed as an alien
in a full-length neon green suit, with antenna for ears

and not wearing any shoes. “You’re Unusual”
another one said. Some could take this as an insult. But she
took it as a compliment instead. She came to one session
with a dozen balloons tied down by weights. And made

the psychologist wait outside his office door
as she set them up in order. On each different colored
balloon, she wrote her feelings. There was sadness, anger
and jealousy, excited and nervous, even happy. When he

entered his office, he could barely walk. He had to
go through a maze of balloons to find his chair. Thank God
the man wasn’t visibly impaired. It was like bumper pool,
bouncing off her feelings with balloons. One time she came into

the session wearing nothing but a bikini, and holding a
humongous branch that fell in her backyard from
a storm. The branch from the old oak tree was taller than
her! She loved to taunt her shrinks., They never knew what
she’d do. And it was hard to think when a patient is wearing
a string bikini.