***"*A story that is dazzling and devastating, tender and unflinching . . . Sentence by sentence, Mad Eden remakes the world as it tells it." —Morgan Talty, author of Night of the Living Rez and Fire Exit"Mad Eden is utterly gorgeous—with so many sentences I wanted to underline—and feels utterly essential at this moment when so many of us are feeling lost." —Charlie Jane Anders, author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster and All the Bir...

This ebook provides an approach to the resolution of runners plantar fasciitis based on improved body awareness and the dynamic nature of fascia. FitOldDog’s bout of runner’s plantar fasciitis-induced heel and foot pain resulted from his tendency to lean forward whilst standing, compounded by a tense hamstring triggering calf muscle spasms and tightening of the related fascia. How would a boot or sock help with that? They didn’t? Curing my sore heel enabled me to qualify for the Boston Mar...

When a physician or other medical professional encounters symptoms of unknown cause, the responsible name for such symptoms, in the case of heel pain, is "Idiopathic Heel Pain," not plantar fasciitis. Such a label is demonstrably mistaken, irresponsible and potentially dangerous.Sara, age 46, loves running her crafts store. But after 23 years of enduring heel pain, she had given up hope of a cure. Sara had even submitted to shockwave therapy under complete anesthesia at Duke Hospit...

FINALIST FOR THE PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES ART SIEDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION, THE 2022 LAMBDA LITERARY PRIZE FOR TRANSGENDER FICTION, AND THE 2023 PUBLISHING TRIANGLE EDMUND WHITE AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION"These breathlessly imaginative stories are all the more remarkable for the elegant, organic ways in which the author unhooks language from its entrenched assumptions about men and women." — The New York Times Book R...

After a messy break-up with a long time on again off again girlfriend, Tess Crawford tells herself that she is done, but struggles with left-over emotions. With long hours at the hospital and a six year old always in tow, Tess barely has time to take a deep breath. When Courtney Anderson finds herself with some time off work and agrees to take on some appointments for her brother's computer repair business, she doesn't expect to become intrigued by a single mother who perpetually looks as ...

Having managed to continue Ironman training with an abdominal aortic aneurysm stent graft, Dr. Morgan tackles a tougher challenge, triathlons with peripheral arterial disease (PAD). This comes with a significant amount of pain and dysfunction. He tackled this in his usual scientific manner, or as Mark Watney in "The Martian" would put it, "Dr. Morgan has "scienced the sh*t out of it." As a veterinary pathologist, life-long athlete, and student of body movement, his training was ideal for t...

In a St. Louis memory care center, amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, two unlikely people run afoul of each other. And somehow, despite their faults and bad intentions, almost inexplicably … they fall in love. If it happens to you, remember how Helen and Frank found joy in their imperfect lives.

Four books in one, to encourage action for environmental protection. Talk is cheap, but action is necessary to save species from ecocide. Book one, Not Just Talk, provides a series of simple actions one can take to help the health of the Biosphere. The second and third books describe how the author reduced his carbon footprint, and improved his retirement cash flow, by building a tiny house with a large vegetable garden.Book four, the author's first historical novel, "Scientist in ...

Growing old is risky. Combine it with poverty and you have a conundrum. In Defiance Is Different, the fourth in the Helen and Frank series, Frank Palermo had lost his money by 2023. He had sent it to aid the defense of Ukraine, along with prodigious sums of money he had defrauded from Russian oligarchs. Helen Palermo was living on a placid lake in Florida, estranged from Frank, whom she feared might get her killed. Barney Browning and Vinnie Palermo continued to make money. They needed to ...

There are some important tricks to enjoying a life in science, which are the subject this book by a truly happy scientist. Forty years and it never seemed like work, more like play. Why? The author was in his element, and he had a trade that he also enjoyed, Pathology. This took the pressure off when the grants didn't come in. Sometimes the grants don't come it. It's a competitive world, that of the professional scientist.But so interesting and valuable.That's how you survi...

The author decided to leave his scientific career during a final invited lecture, the keynote address to a small scientific society. He realized that 40 years was quite enough. He needed to step aside for the next generation. After his lecture entitled, “Paradigm Shifts In Biology,” several young scientists in the audience came up to ask him, “What would you do if you were just starting your career in the biological sciences?”He replied without hesitation:“I would choose a ...

I Wish I’d Had A Copy Of This Manual Prior To My Aortic Surgery In August 2010, I came home from the hospital having survived endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery. I was fortunate to have received an abdominal aortic stent graft, which saved my life. To be honest, I was in a state of shock. Everything went so fast, from Ironman triathlete to aortic aneurysm patient in a matter of weeks. My problem was that I needed guidance and inspiration from someone who’d been there before. In...