June 3, 2025
Used Up and Spent?
After 10 weeks away, I returned to my beloved farmland. It wasn’t the same. But what wasn’t I seeing?
May 29, 2025
SURGICAL LESSONS — RESOLVE!
The stages of recovery from a tough surgery take time to go through, but perhaps in the end, you have renewed resolve to move forward.
May 28, 2025
SURGICAL LESSONS — WORK!
When I thought I needed medication, my physical therapist instead provided motivation.
May 27, 2025
SURGICAL LESSONS — PLAY!
When chronic pain hits, brain fog descends. What do you do when you can’t concentrate?
May 23, 2025
Ignite — 5/23/25
The last “Ignite” post was published on October 25, 2024 — before the election and my knee replacement surgery. Time to laugh again, at least for a little while.
May 22, 2025
SURGICAL LESSONS — BELIEVE!
“Some people go to priests, others to poetry, I to my friends.” — Virginia Woolf
May 21, 2025
SURGICAL LESSONS — LAUGH!
Laughter is the best medicine . . . unless you’re constipated, or worse, you have to use a medical toilet; or worse — are you kidding me? — there’s nothing worse.
May 20, 2025
SURGICAL LESSONS — ENDURE!
You learn many lessons following a tough surgery; lessons that teach you how to better ENDURE, LAUGH, BELIEVE, PLAY, WORK and RESOLVE. Today’s surgical lesson: ENDURE!