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Our exercise-dancer, shown in today’s graphic, captures the joy and freedom, the opening up, which movement gives us…– One reason our brightly clad dancer catches the eye is that she is wearing sneakers – heavier-duty shoes – than that normally seen on a ballet or modern dance enthusiast. Those shoes give us permission to get […]

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s famous poem of “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways…” easily also could say “How thankful am I for Life and Love and You.“ As Thanksgiving well-wishing abounds this week, we are going to turn a few minutes attention to where gratitude may struggle. A few days ago while

Writing a Health and Fitness blog leads me in the discovery of excellent online resources for topic of the week. Today’s subject is Walking – which can be done while wearing my temporary healing buddy, an arm sling. While researching Walking this past weekend, , I discovered The Monday Campaigns website… “a public health initiative

Three weeks ago our email title said ABSENT due to my having impending right rotator cuff surgery. Today we re-call the roll and hear the word PRESENT. Surgery is done and I am working the body back. Physical therapy began last week. The right arm can’t do much because it is cradled in a cumbersome,

Hello! We won’t have a post for two or three weeks. Please take excellent care of yourselves. My right rotator cuff surgery was postponed until Friday morning, October 21, 2022.I withdrew from all fitness activities last week to undergo lab work, EKG, chest X-Ray and other pre-surgical tasks. This week I’ll finish Medicare season preparation,

Last Thursday I was standing in the trail mix section of the Whole Foods Market®. Gratitude welled up as my mind flashed back over the last 54 years…”I’ve been shopping in natural food stores a long, long, time.” I gathered the rest of the coming week’s groceries – fresh fruits and vegetables, lentils, unsweetened soy

October features a lot of holidays. This week, in fact, tomorrow – Tuesday, October 4, 2022, is a particularly stellar day. As you can see from our graphic, courtesy of Chef Lola’s Kitchen website, this Tuesday we celebrate National Taco Day. Taco Tuesday! Affordable weekly, fast, flavorful, easy-to-say for the kids, nutritious family eating out.

Sometimes the mind LIKES to fight us. It particularly enjoys talking us out of exercise. “I’ll get going tomorrow morning.” The voice in our head assures us… Sure enough next day, we drag out of bed because we ended up not sleeping well; or we rush into daily activities because we overslept; or we realize

Many of us dine alone a majority of our days. The issue becomes eating nutritionally when we do not want excess left overs or to create a food preparation kitchen mess. Here is my favorite Lean and Green solution for solo meals. 1. I keep on hand a variety of Healthy Choice Power Bowls or

Since today is the first Monday after Labor Day, we may be yearning for, or feeling, that back-to-school or new job sense of energy – even if those activities no longer define our lives. Our human psyche and physiology are caught up in cultural and seasonal endings and beginnings. At Life’s most basic we are