In this episode of I Thought You'd Like to Know, Dr. Ronda Chervin reads her book Talkaholics: Fate or Work-in-Progress (November 23, 2024)

Why would I ever think I talk too much? Here are some tiny stories to show you why:“Ronda,” asked my spiritual director, “what would it be like if you joined a table (at the seminary where I was teaching and took my meals) and didn’t talk first?”

“Ronda,” a co-professor at a university told me: “when you interrupt me while I am talking it feels as if you think nothing I am saying is important, only what you say!”

“Ronda,” a mentor asked me: “how many sentences do you enunciate which start with the word I”?

“Ronda,” someone said: “it’s as if when I talk your foot is on the brake, but ready in a second to jump onto the accelerator to say what you wanted to say, not as a response, but just what you happen to think is more important."

During a conversation with another talkaholic, David Dowd, a co-author of mine of the book “Always a New Beginning,” we joked this way: “How about we start a group called Talkaholics Anonymous?”