Will Jones

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The word ‘heart’ has many literal and figurative meanings, especially if combined with a word like ‘have,’ as in ‘to have heart.’ A heart is an organ that pumps blood...

Recently, two friends of mine had pacemakers installed to regulate their heartbeats and to combat atrial fibrillation. Both of them are doing very well, having regained energy and lost some...

My title is a little deceptive because I no longer run. But I ran for a long time, from high school into my mid-sixties. All three of my sons, now...

Shortly before my recent annual visit with my cardiologist, I received some information that sent me into an emotional tail spin: fear, anxiety, insomnia, a lack of overall wellbeing. It...

Editor's note: This is part 2 of a series. Be sure to read Part 1. After coffee and breakfast the next morning, we set out over Burro Pass for the...

Editor's note: This is part 1 of a series. Read Part 2. When you’re walking around with two stents and one heart attack on record, and when you take baby...

A friend of mine in his early eighties sometimes refers to his “bonus life,” that is, his life after medical interventions that allow him to live longer than he might...

“You have reached the Melville Nauheim Shelter. This shelter was built in 1977 and sleeps 8. There is water just north of the shelter side trail on the AT.” As...

The Norwegian explorer, Erling Kagge, is the only person to have walked to the South Pole, the North Pole, and to the summit of Mt. Everest. In his short, meditative...

In the summer of 2010, a diagnosis of coronary artery disease after the discovery of two blocked arteries started me thinking about retirement. After a career in secondary education, including...

On a recent road trip vacation to Utah and Colorado, my wife and I stayed at the country retreat of friends who live on Wright’s Mesa in Southwestern Colorado. At...

Editor's note: This is the second article in a two-part series. The first is "Coronary Artery Disease, Part I: We Have a Problem." When I learned that I had Coronary...

Editor's note: This is part 1 of a series. Be sure to check out part 2! My paternal grandfather died of heart failure in 1964 when he was sixty-three. My...