The archive
I often tell people that life is like a flowing stream. Sometimes you flow through rough, rocky sections that test your resolve. Sometimes you flow through sunny, calm sections that are warm and beautiful. Most of it is something in between—rocky sections that can still be beautiful, like this scene from Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
This page will preserve my account of COVID-19: the events, decisions, uncertainty, changing evidence, and lessons worth carrying forward.
This page will document my family’s ongoing battle with muscular dystrophy and the practical lessons accumulated through years of diagnosis, caregiving, adaptation, and change.
This page will tell the story of my bout with achalasia: the symptoms, the search for an explanation, the treatment, and what I learned along the way.
This page will examine the vitamins and supplements I have considered or used, the evidence behind them, and the difference between a plausible claim and a useful result.
This page will collect my experience with managing weight, including the approaches that proved sustainable and those that worked better in theory than in ordinary life.
This page will cover what I have learned about building and maintaining useful strength—not for appearance, but for capability and independence.
This page will explore the role flexibility plays in staying capable, avoiding injury, and continuing to do useful physical work as the years accumulate.
This page will document my experience with back problems: what helped, what did not, and how I learned to keep moving without pretending the problem was not there.