Rick Skwiot

San Miguel de Allende, Mexico | Excerpt | “De Efe”

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By Rick Skwiot Excerpted from San Miguel de Allende, Mexico: Memoir of a Sensual Quest for Spiritual Healing Contact: publisher@antaeusbooks.com De Efe Mexicans call it, D.F., El Distrito Federal, or simply México. Licha was a chilanga, a native of the capital, a choking city of twelve million then, in 1983. I had agreed to accompany [...]

Inside the Bad Knee and Sick Mind Of the Arthroscopic Surgery Patient

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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 [...]