Working Toward Opening Day

A baseball sitting on snow next to a bare spot of ground.

The Broken Ankle Saga continues, though it might be better described as the Healing Ankle Saga. In the week and a half since my last post, a lot has improved: I have almost no numbness in my foot and the nerve pain has quieted considerably. I’m regularly putting 80 lbs. of weight on my right … Read more

Booting Up

A large book rests upon a table.

My broken ankle is a little less broken now. A month after the surgery to put my ankle back together, all of the hardware installed in my ankle is holding true, the bones are slowly healing and I’ve upgraded from a cast to a truly impressive, sci-fi-looking boot. The massive piece of footwear is meant … Read more

Breaking in the New Year

A close-up of my broken ankle.

I broke my right ankle on Dec. 30, 2017. And in so doing, transformed my 2018. Heading into the new year I’d been mulling other things I wanted to accomplish: running another 5K, getting back into swimming, maybe writing another novel, maybe doing Picture-A-Day again, shaking up our gaming group’s routine with a couple of … Read more