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Do You Really Want to Live for 450 years???

Some of the excuses people use for not exercising are flat out hilarious.  I heard three that sounded pretty good at first blush, but further investigation poked big holes in the logic of every one of them. Warning!  This post won’t change the world but I hope it makes you smile.

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Do You Exercise this Source of Amazing Strength!

When is the last time you laughed so hard you couldn’t breathe?  The kind of laughter that made you scramble for a tissue and made your ribs hurt the next day. The average four-year-old laughs 300 times a day, a 40-year-old, only four. If you doubt those figures, watch this clip of my four-year-old grandson, Tyler.  Time it!  Then do …

You’re are NOT too old. You’re just Ripe!

It was only a few years ago that I dragged a lame excuse out of the closet to help me avoid getting involved in living again.  “I’m too old,” too old to take an art class, too old to exercise, to old to seek new adventures.  I used it even as I watched other people hobbling around on the same …

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How to Make it to 70 Fully Alive. Don’t…….

Do you want to avoid recliner rot? This post is a letter from a lady I call the 70 year old princess.  She is excited about living fully alive and believe me, it shows. I purposely did not include her picture here but you will see it when you read her letter in the post. Elaine has the kind of …

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You must Stop if you intend to Smell the Roses.

Today I woke up early determined to run up the mountain to two beautiful lakes. This is exercise at it’s best and I was committed to reaching the lakes in less than an hour. The route is all up hill amid towering pines paralleling a rambunctious stream.  As I labored upward there was only one thing on my mind.  Make …