Like hearing an old lover’s favourite song playing in a crowded shopping mall as you sit waiting for the shoe store clerk to return with a bigger size of casual brown oxford for you to wear to the office.

Charles Darwin, Winston Churchill, James Earl Jones, Rowan Atkinson, Sir Issac Newton and myself, believe it or not,  all have one thing in common: A stutter. I tend not to talk about it these days as I have become fairly skilled at masking it and sometimes for days at a stretch it will disappear completely. [...]