Solitude and Isolation

He would never exchange his solitude for anything.

Never again be forced to move to the rhythms of others.

Tillie Olsen

Tell Me a Riddle (1960)

Searching my childhood memories for material to put in this column, I have too few recollections of spending days of play with my siblings (four of the six of us were born in four-and-a-half years). Visiting with my sister, she said that she doesn't rememb...