Point To Ponder

So, what was your most difficult accomplishment physically?

I mean, it could be in athletics – scoring 30 points in a basketball game – or maybe a personal record in running or weight lifting – or maybe just completing the work on the flower garden you had planned on a hot summer day.

There's a reason I ask.

You see, for years, what I thought was my greatest physical accomplishment took place back when I was in school. To this day there is a sixth grader school record at Liberty Middle School in Chesterton where I cleared five feet in the high jump in track.

When I lived in New York City, I pl...