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1. I did NOT reach my July goal of getting to 190 .  I'm kinda hanging around 195.  I know this is, in part, due to gaining muscle, so I...

Just keep your fingers crossed for me. That's all I ask. [And don't worry, I'm not going to die]

In 2010, I blogged about how my dad thought getting a KitchenAid Stand Mixer basically equated to cookies, cakes and all other sorts of cal...

Fancy needle work Fluoroscopically-guided epidural injection So..  I have a herniated disc between C5-6, a bulge in C6-7, and three b...

I don't want to go through the whole story of my surgery except to say that I had a L5-S1 fusion on July 15, 2016.  Today is my 4 week s...

A little over a month ago I wrote about the first New Rule -- Leave No One Behind -- and I don't think I really explained all of my re...

There's a line in Lilo & Stitch where Stitch says " This is my family. It's little and broken, but still good." Tha...

[[Updates & Annotations in brackets]] Do not judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes. We've all heard versions o...

A long time ago (okay, it wasn't a long time ago, but it felt like it),  I wrote a blog post called " The Sound of Silence " a...

It's so odd to think that all the wedding preparations are over. My journey really began in August 2009 when Nancy asked me to be her...