Some people say the aches and pains of middle age are all in your head. I’m here to tell you that they may very well be located in your neck. I knew something was up — or, as it turns out, down — while swimming in the Atlantic Ocean with my daughters-in-law last weekend in Maine….

I had one of those epic, big-budget dreams. I felt like it took months to wake up. Ten months to be exact.    The dream began with my family — son David and husband Allan — hurdling through space in a tin contraption. We landed nearly 15 hours later in a modern city-state nestled between the…

Somehow — in a matter of seconds, minutes, years — I went from National Champion swimmer to NCAA swim coach to being a parent with a stopwatch on the swim deck.  Damn that devil time. I used to beat the clock, and now it’s beating me.  There I was on Tuesday night, June 23 at…