This is a piece I never thought I would write. But given what I have gone through the past 13-plus months, I am thankful for the opportunity.

I was hit by a car in the late afternoon of May 24, 2022. As a longtime sportswriter—and Light correspondent in the 1990s—I am familiar with seeing my name in the paper. But as an author, not as a subject.

I was returning from watching a softball game…