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Today our hero is The Little Engine That Could. When it comes to magazine perfect health, many of us battle with physical, mental or emotional “Owies” that prevent our attaining media’s idealized health and fitness image. No matter. We’ll set our minds to doing what we think we can do. Before we know it… Choo, […]

Yeah! San Diego’s weather is warming up to why we live here temperature. With the thaw setting the New Year on its proper course – let’s carry forward in our mind’s eye the no limit spirit of the picture below.  Whether we experience good or bad in 2015, we’ll be okay. Our soul soars with joy.

Since week 52 happens only once a year, let’s take a few minutes to look back through 2014 with grateful thoughts – even for those events which felt disastrous at the time.  Life is on our side. The future holds many blessings, if we give it a chance. In fact the lead magazine story, Feeling

Hold the Fort represents a phrase used throughout American history. For our purposes we are holding the fort this week against too much feasting. Yes, we very much enjoyed cookies from around the world which were brought to last Friday’s Zumba Gold® class. Today is a new day, though, and thanks to Snoopy our Defenses Are Up Against

   Hanukkah gatherings, Christmas parties and other December celebrations can mean over-indulging in Holiday feasts.    The upside to these events is sharing ourselves with family, friends and co-workers.      Social connectedness has been identified in The Blue Zones* book as contributing to longevity in a community. So this month we’ll be careful about what we

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,                             Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.                              All the king’s horses and all the king’s men,   Couldn’t put Humpty together again.

If during this Holiday Season we find ourselves over-busy or lonely because family members do not live nearby, let’s cheer ourselves up with Uncle Remus.*  Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay. My, oh my, what a wonderful day. Plenty of sunshine headin’ my way. Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay. That way people will ask why we have such a huge smile while

“I yam what I yam, and that’s all what I yam.”                                    Popeye the Sailorman. Now that Thanksgiving week is here our attention turns to traditional Yam Casserole with Marshmallows, Pineapple and Walnuts. Memory retrieves the taste of my

Lemon tree very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet,But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat. We have to disagree with the 1960’s popular folk song. A warm cup of lemon water in the morning provides a crisp, alkalizing start to the day. I squeeze half a lemon or lime, including pulp,

On average there are 266 sunny days in San Diego per year.* As we all know, sunshine lifts our mood – causing us to feel better in body, mind and spirit. This San Diego November Monday, let’s become sunshine in someone else’s life.   You know the song….You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. You make