Chris Rolfe circled the Safeway’s frozen-food aisles. Once, twice. Colors, lights, the whirl of shoppers, the clickety-clack of carts bombarded the senses.
A third time around.
He had suffered a concussion less than a week earlier, the effects of an inadvertent elbow crashing into the right side of his nose during D.C. United’s MLS match at Chicago in late April.
Days had turned darker, fundamental tasks compromised.
He had come to his neighborhood grocery store in Alexandria for gluten-free cookie dough, among other items, but his aching brain wouldn’t allow him to organize his thoughts.