(1 minute, 24 seconds) High jumping is a complicated sport. I speak from experience. Crucial elements include: an accelerated arc approach, firm foot plant and push off with simultaneous dual arm swing overhead, arching one’s body in a giant “C” over the bar head first,…

(2 minutes, 11 seconds) Eleven years ago today, my surgeon—unbeknownst to me—handed me off to a student surgeon who ruined my hip. At an appointment many months after my total hip replacement surgery, when everything was still going steeply south rather than getting better, my…