Gordon's Notes

It wasn't a pretty lift. My butt came up but my chest was slower. The depth was marginal. But on Jan 2 2024, into my 65th year, I more-o...

My 10 year CrossFit anniversary is two months away. A few months after  I started as an old man of 53 I wrote : ... I now do CrossFit twice ...

I entered my 63y recently. For me this means another look at what I'm doing with the old arthritic body I've got. I started doing Cr...

I'm a physician. Ok, so it's a very part-time practice; I'm mostly a bureaucrat trying to keep civilization together. Still I h...

I wrote the original of this post in the early COVID era. Since then I expanded the basement home gym with a way over-specced power lifting ...

In 2018 I met one of my two CrossFit Life Goals (tm) -  10 consecutive dubs (hit 42 in a wild fluke the other day). Only took me five times...

My familial arthritis showed up in one finger a few years ago, but in December of 2015 it became a bigger deal [1]. It looked like an early...

I’m not a competitive athlete, but over the past 3 years I’ve been doing a lot of exercise . This is relatively new for me. I’ve always been...

I’m working through a tedious form that requires me to look up old information from dusty files. I step away to eat and locate some document...

A few years back, around the time the iPhone camera became very good at close photography, I began to photograph Father's Day cards and ...

Mature audiences only. Under 45 not admitted. You have been warned. I was 53 when I started my CrossFit hobby . That was almost 3 years a...

I feel like I’m tied to a railroad track, and see the light of the train approaching. And I don’t know if it’s one mile away, or 500.   Anon...

A somewhat wise traveler walks a path in deep desert. He comes across a turtle that has fallen on its back. Having some wisdom he carries t...

How would a cetacean live with a blocked blowhole?  The question was asked in a 1986 newspaper column ... A--Whales and dolphins breathe...

I have the face of a Disney villain . This came to me as a slowly unfolding personal revelation after reading Emily Matchar’s humorous ess...