By Brady Crain I’ve been house sitting in Jersey City for the last few days, and for the next week. I love coming to the city — going to the museums, the culture, the music — except the exhausting roar […]
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Recovery progress continues with successful trail runs
By Brady Crain Things are going really well with the back surgery recovery. Now that I can move my arms about and twist my spine, even trips to the chiropractor are easier, and it feels good to get back to […]
This summer’s athletic stupidity challenges unveiled
By Brady Crain I have spent a lot of time since this lumbar surgery (left side L3-4 foraminotomy/facetectomy – didn’t need a laminectomy because the disc was already gone) walking, swimming, icing, and stressing about what was going to happen […]
Altitude Sickness
By Brady Crain Recovery continues apace. The second round of steroids did the trick, and now when I walk I am nearly completely pain free, and when I swim or ride my trainer, I am pain free. I am still […]
Boredom, withdrawal, healing
By Brady Crain Thee healing chronicles continued: I have good days, and I have bad days. The thing that gets me down the most is not really being able to move my torso at all. Luckily, tomorrow I will be […]
Thank God it’s Thursday
By Brett Yates In “Bit Rot,” Douglas Coupland’s recent collection of essays and stories, the author writes, “In the future, every day of the week will be a Thursday. We’re all working toward the grave, and life will be one […]
June: Skiing and softball… and surgery
By Brady Crain As always, summer seems to have popped open overnight, and I am always blown away by it. One of the things I miss most living in Killington versus other more residential towns is magnolia, lilac, cherry, and […]
Making lemonade when life gives you (lots of) lemons
I have been sitting here, pondering all of the ways life goes wrong. I have been thinking of all of the things that have happened to me, dozens of injuries, dozens of broken bones (ostensibly more than a dozen broken […]
A chance at paternity
I have have always wanted children. This might seem counterintuitive, given my life of fairly wild irresponsibility, travel, and transience, but it is true. I have, however, been very careful to wait to have children until I found a proper […]
Storm-lit skinning uphill in the dark
“Communally Acquired Pneumonia.” While this sounds like the way a deity might punish hippies, what this really means is that it is a case of pneumonia that was not acquired in a hospital (aptly named “Hospital Acquired Pneumonia”). Ask me […]