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Yesterday was one of those sizzling summer days – this one with a mild dash of Southern California humidity. Since my home is about a mile from the beach, air conditioning is a non-option for my residence. However, on this sweltering day, none of the standard dinner options beckoned to my taste buds. Breakfast had

Our Health and Wellness focus this week comes from American jazz and traditional pop singer, Tony Bennett, who passed away on July 21, 2023. While describing a low point in his 70+ year musical career, Tony Bennett gave credit to pianist, Bill Evans, for helping to turn around his career: “Just go with truth and

This week we give a nod to National Gorgeous Grandma Day which happens on July 23, 2023. We celebrate the end of stereotypical attitudes regarding women’s health and fitness, purpose and longevity when including the word “Gorgeous” in describing Grandmas or any women over age 50. From the NationalToday website…here is a description of how

We start second half of the year from the Ground Up – with feet and ankles. Although this week’s graphic from the Spinalogy® Clinic website focuses on curing ankle sprains, the images also show excellent general stretching and strengthening exercises for our feet and ankles. If you want an easy-to-read, fairly deep dive on the

Since we currently are on a long holiday weekend, this year our 4th of July non-fitness focus blog is being posted a day early. It seemed appropriate to feature the whole of Francis Scott Key’s The Star-Bangled Banner, shown below, as a reminder that we uphold the 4th of July, not alone due to signing

Every day that we don’t move puts mind and body in a box. We are talking here about unnecessarily slowing our walking pace and holding back on what are called Primal Movements, the fundamental actions of life. As today’s image represents, we stuff ourselves full of inertia, the inability to generate our own movement, when

Do you remember writing reports in elementary school about a recent trip or vacation you had taken? Today’s post describes health and fitness industry insights and personal physical highlights from my trip last week to the Functional Aging Institute (FAI) Summit in Salt Lake City, Utah. 1. My business insight is taken from the full

Is a Song In Our Heart…and Mouth and Ears…good for the Heart? Have we taken a few minutes yet to sing today? Hopefully, we have at least a partially memorized song bank within us. If we grew up in a musical family, or church of any kind, or were part of high school glee club,

June is celebrated as U.S. National Rose Month. Which leads us to William Shakespeare’s line from Romeo and Juliet…”That which we call a Rose – By any other name would smell as sweet.“ If we are able, going for a walk through our neighborhoods will lead us past at least one garden with a blossoming