By Rick Skwiot (First published in PortFolio Weekly) My first mistake, fueled by youthful enthusiasm, was sprinting up the stadium steps with another lineman on my back. Conditioning, we called it. My second critical mistake, some three decades later, was going into arthroscopic knee-surgery without the benefit of sedation. Some might see a masochistic pattern [...]
About Rick Skwiot
Award-winning Key West-based novelist and memoirist Rick Skwiot is the author of the Hemingway First Novel Award winner Death in Mexico (previously published as Flesh), the Willa Cather Fiction Prize finalist Sleeping With Pancho Villa, the critically acclaimed childhood memoir Christmas at Long Lake, and, most recently, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico: Memoir of a Sensual Quest for Spiritual Healing. He has taught creative writing at Washington University in St. Louis and served as the 2004 Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Co-founder and director of the nonprofit Key West Writers Lab, he lives in Key West, Florida.
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