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The Next 100 Years

by | Jan 1, 2016 | Life and all That, Ponderings

My plan is to live to at least 140 years old. When I tell people this, they often think of older relatives in nursing homes or suffering from illness and cringe. They think of being old and infirm, of being trapped inside a decrepit body. That’s our past and...

Starting from Scratch

by | Dec 28, 2015 | Life and all That

This morning I walked for 27 minutes without crying in pain. In fact, I have not been crying on my morning walks for a few days now, although it took almost two weeks of regular strolls to get to this point. It’s my back muscles that hurt — underused and out of...

What are Your Four Important Things?

by | Apr 9, 2015 | Fiction, Life and all That

Hard experience has taught me that there is only room for Four Important Things in your life – I don’t mean people or situations, but rather, personal priorities. That First Important Thing is always “whatever it is you do to support your household and not go hungry.”...

Your body is not a carburetor

by | Mar 12, 2015 | Life and all That

Recently a friend of mine posted about a lot of weight she had lost and her improved health/bloodwork after starting a new way of eating (or WOE, for short). It doesn’t matter which WOE she used, here – Weight Watchers, Mediterranean, the Zone, Atkins, LCHF, whatever,...

“go”

by | Feb 26, 2015 | Life and all That

The above meme featuring Henry Rollins has been making the rounds lately, and I happen to like it (and Rollins) a lot. So I posted it on facebook. Reactions ranged from “hell yeah!” to “nope” for a variety of reasons. Valid criticism came in...