Healthy Mind Heart Body

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  • I have a broken foot. So what?

    I still can’t believe I banged up my toe so badly. I’m dying to go for a run. I can barely walk but I almost went for a jog around the block tonight. My patience is wearing thin but self-control has kept me at bay, for now. I’m fast approaching my wits end without the…

  • Informal Koan

    I offer this informal koan, friendly challenge– this unbiased opportunity for free-thinking and self-exploration. Ponder this subset of oxymoronic pairs: industry and carefree; structure and randomness; restraint and freedom; fact and irony; effort and letting go. Is one good? Is one bad? Could they exist independently of one another? Are the pairs dancing or fighting?…

  • Hallux Rigidus

    Ignorance is bliss? 18 months of reinjury, slow and painful progress, and over-dramatic stubbed toes don’t feel much like bliss. I finally decided to see a podiatrist about my newly reinjured big toe. The good news, depending on how you look at it, I’m going to live. The bad news, my toe may not. My…

  • I’ve Stubbed My Damned Toe Yet Again

    Besides work, homework, eating, sleeping and the occasional shower, all I do is yoga, run, dance and play basketball. Nearly everything I do requires the use of my feet, and toes, one of which I have injured and reinjured several times in the past two years. Last night, mere days after reaching a long awaited…

  • My Childhood Heroes

    My childhood heroes are a pretty impressive bunch, I must say! I’d be proud to be compared to any one of them. As a child, I was less inhibited by the internal and external motivations of an adult. Life was simpler, less complex, less confusing, closer to being true to myself. My young, innocent self…

  • Turtle Creek and John Chow

    I set out for a recovery run on the Katy Trail on a warm afternoon in Dallas. The run became a jog which settled to a leisurely stroll. I wandered off the Katy Trail and down along Turtle Creek. The tension of a corporate lifestyle settled to the peace of feeling home among the turtles,…