Eunis WildFire! Christensen

October 8th was my birthday. Celebrations become more extended, meaningful and joyous each year. Extended means maintaining a celebratory attitude several days in a row. Or one could extend joy at her or his birthing into a season, or even let it become a lifestyle. The Birthday weekend included meaningful activities which all included Vibrant […]

October 1st was World Vegetarian Day. Although I no longer am a full-fledged vegetarian, research of healthy, long-lived populations reveals that active nonagenarians and centenarians tend to have eaten a primarily plant-rich diet most of their lives. Often their family emphasis on vegetables, legumes, grains and fruit was due to economic and geographic circumstances of

My upper left arm is tender and a little swollen from the high-dose quadrivalent flu shot I received yesterday. The intent next weekend is to obtain my second Shingrix vaccine – the first was received in early June, 2023. This would keep my body within the recommended two-to-six month, two dose shingles prevention inoculation window.When

The Autumnal Equinox happens this week on Friday, September 22 at 11:49 Pacific Time. The Sun will be exactly above the equator and day and night will be of equal length. Then in the Northern Hemisphere Daylight hours will start their decrease until we reach the December 21, 2023 Winter Solstice when longer days begin

Perhaps the practice of health and fitness has been a moving target throughout our adulthood – depending on family and career circumstances. For some of us a “strong constitution” and normal weighted frame may have been such a gift, that we needed to do very little to move through life with ease. Formal exercise programs

Since this post is being written on Labor Day 2023, we won’t feature our regular Health & Fitness article. Rather today let us celebrate and acknowledge all who work to keep the economy humming. Every contributing job is needed. Every job is worthwhile. Every laborer deserves our respect. Thank you to the workers who every

Before exiting August National Wellness Month it seemed a good idea to share my favorite two Bodyweight exercises with you. These moves come from far away regions of the globe and in their simplest form require no equipment. Each can be done with modifications to suite one’s fitness level. Shared in this post are the

If we compare Life to a Three Act play, then a number of our Readers have entered, or within the next decade+ will enter, their Third Act. Assumption for Act Three being that in making it to at least age 99, Life has divided itself into a First Act of 33 years, Second act to

During the last 40 years I have discovered one Sure Thing in regards to health, fitness and feeling fine at a weight that works for my body. If trying to shed fat pounds, the sure-fire, not extreme tactic for keeping the scale moving in the right direction that has worked for me is to eat