It’s been a minute, hasn’t it?
If you’re subscribed to this email list, you’ve probably noticed I haven’t sent an email here for a while. (Or you haven’t. Honestly, I’m not that important, so I wouldn’t be surprised.) There’s a reason for that, and it’s a reason I’m now ready to reveal to the outside world.
A year and a month ago, in January 2022, I found out that I have myotonic dystrophy, one of the seven major categories of muscular dystrophy. This, as I’m sure you might imagine, threw me for a loop — if “loop” means tsunami-like tidal wave. It has meant quite a variety of things. And for the last several months, I’ve been ruminating on what it means to basically be healthy, but also know you’re not actually healthy. So I tried answering that question in an article for GQ, which just came out today:
What Does Wellness Mean When You're Living With an Incurable Disease?
That’s something of a definitive accounting as to WTF is going on.
As for this newsletter: I’m going to bring it back to its regularly scheduled programming, although I’m thinking about a new format. I need to give it some thought. There’s a likelihood I convert it into a paid newsletter, where some editions will be free, and others will be for paying subscribers. (After all: The machines are coming for my job.)
So give me a little bit of time to re-figure all this out again. And if you’re looking for something more entertaining to read: Here’s an article I did about the pogo jumpers who are making flying high on a pogo stick its own form of the X Games.