Don't Go Gently Into That Good Night

This New Trend Called Jogging

September 17, 2026 I can't run in silence. I either need headphones with music blaring, some game on TV, ocean waves crashing--something. When I was a passably competent runner in high school, I'd listen to a very bizarre assortment of songs--Janet Jackson to U2 to Led Zeppelin--on a CD player or Sony Walkman. In all the years since, I've failed to ever develop the running bug despite a few wasteful registrations for half marathons that I never participated in. Still, I've at least maintained...

1 day ago • 3 min read

We're Playing Basketball

September 10, 2026 Basketball has always mattered a lot to me. And for a long time, probably because I thought I should, I'd dismiss its importance--or pretend to--if I feared criticism of how much I cared about basketball in relation to worthier things. It isn't that I was ever particularly good at basketball--much to my chagrin. I just grew up with it. So I loved it. My dad and I would watch so much basketball. We'd go outside and play on the hoop affixed above our garage. And I'd come back...

9 days ago • 5 min read

A Cup of Ice, Please

September 3, 2026 The last thing I'd considered while I progressed from intensive care to a rehabilitation program was how poorly I'd sleep in the coming days. This wasn't anyone's fault other than the person whose car plowed into mine on July 15th. But it was challenging nevertheless to fill the time during the midnight hour--and several hours thereafter--until there was more to do and more people to talk to and more therapy to wrestle through en route to getting back home again. I broke 18...

16 days ago • 4 min read