Taking off from James Bond’s iconic instructions for every martini he orders (“Shaken… not stirred”) I have had quite the adventure with the whole sequence of my bicycle accident, later loss of function on my left side, emergency cranial surgery to remove a large blood clot, and the subsequent recovery, a midlife crisis manifest, and a “reboot” of sort. As I learned time after time from my dad, life at its best is an adventure, not always fun, not always happy, but a compelling narrative worth living and sharing with others. I have been both “shaken” and “stirred”. Continue reading →