there was an interesting segment on yesterday's talk of the nation on NPR. they had two guests talking about the importance of learning to swim and how some demographics, particularly african-american men and women, who tend to not learn how to swim at all. the host asked people to call in and talk about if they don't know how to swim and why ( Read more... )

last night, while walking from the office to our bedroom to go to bed, i jammed my baby toe into the leg of the ottoman in our living room. i had never felt a pain like that before. i thought it was your run-of-the-mill stubbed toe, but it hurt so much more. it even was sensitive to the touch for at least another 30 minutes and finally subsided ( Read more... )