Here’s an entry in my new series, GDTRx. I’ll warn you: it’s wordy and personal, the opposite of my photo-heavy travel posts. If you’re still interested and want background, read my previous post, linked above. Update: I do not have a pituitary tumor, hurrah! I don’t know what’s wrong with me yet, but that has […]
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F&F ‘24 Ends with Gratitude in Maryland
That’s the Friends and Family Tour 2024, for any uninitiated readers out there. I’ve been flying by the seat of my pants this week, in another hometown of sorts, near Frederick, Maryland, where I worked for ten years. Spending precious time with old friends, fitting in PT appointments, scrambling to take notes during important calls […]
The Absolute Freaking Weirdness of this Lifestyle
This hometown week on the Friends and Family Tour ‘24 has been a honking-big, tangled-up knot of red-hot emotions. It’s not just been about seeing people I haven’t seen in years. It’s been about being struck by aging (and in a flash of recognition that really should be hidden). It’s been about cramming what we’ve […]
Facing Our Big Fear
I never know how to talk about Covid without sounding like a bore. So I’ll cut to the chase: we’re both sick. Not sick like in the hospital, but sick like in bed for days. Heck, we’re still in bed. It took a Herculean effort to just get here, though. Sick Travel Day Having to […]
Feeling the Strain of Scheduling in Pisgah
An unusually smart and energetic Weimaraner named Pisgah was my neighbor when I lived in Atlanta. Among many tricks, he would do that one where you make the dog wait with a bone on their nose until you say Go, and then they flip it up and catch it and chow down. Pisgah had much […]
Easter with My Favorite Chickens
What are the ingredients for a perfect Easter Day? And the magic ingredient: Okay, let’s back up. Tracy and I spent Easter weekend near Atlanta with my good friend Susan and her extended family. We were in Susan and Alex’s gorgeous backyard all weekend, enjoying the weather and eating her smoked chicken (and smoked pork […]
Emergency Trifecta in the Can
There’s no new emergency, no worries there. I’m thinking about our three simultaneous emergencies that hit in early December: trailer floor replacement, knee surgery, and mystery endocrine ailment. One is completely solved, the other two I’m wrestling with still, but I have both down for the count. As I reported last week, the trailer has […]
Five Days with My Maxi Me
My son Finn hasn’t been mini-er than me since he was about ten, and now he stands more than a foot over me. Not relevant, really, because in some ways he really is my mini me. For this post I’m calling him my maxi me, though. You’ll see why. We just spent five days together […]
The Nomad Fitness Struggle
I’m sitting here writing a blog entry on the sofa instead of doing a workout, which speaks to a universal problem with fitness, right? Laziness. I think that’s why routine really gets me into working out, and it’s why it’s so hard to maintain a fitness schedule on the road. Routine is a total bitch. […]
Quickie Health Update
I just now realized that my weekly email goes out in five minutes, and my previous health update is long and rambling and circuitous. Maybe not a great idea to write a blog post right after surgery! Here’s a faster read. Surgery went well, 8-hr trip back to the trailer in Brownsville was bearable, recovery […]
