My Apparently Successful Experience With Vicodin
I had my first pain free run in five months. And I’m very happy right now. In March, I hurt my back. This was my first real running injury since I started running marathons in 2003. I’ve had some...
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Resetting My Priorities
If you’ve been following along at home, you know I’ve had a tough fall. It started with a bike crash in Slovenia, followed by a few weeks in New York where I physically felt awful. Fortunately I was...
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Wow – That Was Intense
As they wheeled me into surgery, I thought to myself “If this is the end it has been pretty amazing.” This is a photo my brother Daniel took of me just after they wheeled me out of the recovery room...
View ArticleThe Importance Of A Monthly Cadence With Close Friends
I’ve been thinking a lot about Aaron Swartz the past few days. I didn’t know him, but knew of him and have a lot of friends who knew him. I’m still processing it, especially the dynamics around his...
View ArticleAre You Getting Enough Sleep?
I changed my sleep pattern in October. Three months later, I feel like a completely different person. A much better one. Since I was in my early 20’s, I’ve been getting up at 5am from Monday to Friday....
View ArticleAn Example of Life Being Messy – My ER Visit Last Night
Yesterday I wrote a post titled Life Is Messy For Everyone building off of Nick Grossman’s great post Everyone is broken and life is hard. I was in a nice rhythm after being back four days from my...
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Me and My Colonoscopy
I had a two hour run scheduled today that’s not going to happen. I’m nauseous, tired, stuffy, and fuzzy feeling. It’s all because of something that happened on Friday. I turned 50 in December. A right...
View ArticleLife Is The Bucket
I’m sitting up in Amy’s office on a beautiful Tuesday morning listening to the Liz Wright station Pandora. Amy is downstairs doing something with the dogs. I just cried for a few minutes after reading...
View ArticleTwo Weeks Ago …
On the afternoon of 8/21, I had a Foley Catheter put in. I didn’t think I was going to die (that was the afternoon of 8/22), but I did think I was going to explode. I feel better today. Not 100%. But...
View ArticleSunday Morning Reading on Covid-19
Apparently everyone in the US is now talking about the threat of the coronavirus, which really should be referred to as Covid-19 since there are hundreds of different types of coronaviruses. My guess...
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