Category: Exercise

  • My mother Irene would be the first to blame good genes for her longevity. After all, her mother, Yvonne, lived to 105, and Yvonne traveled independently until she was about 102, visiting kids, grandkids and greatgrandkids all over Canada and the United States. I think Irene’s love of life and curiosity about the world may…

  • Two days of driving (sitting motionless for hours) followed by a day of sitting and talking with my mom has brought me to this morning’s feeling of lethargy. What’s going on? No dancing is what’s going on. The internal dialogue goes like this: Tired me: I’m too tired and fried to dance this morning. Wiser…

  • I’ve always loved the Little Free Library practice, where people build cute waterproof wood boxes with a couple of shelves filled with books that neighbors can take from and/or add to. In our neighborhood there are many. But one neighbor chose a different option, stocking a cute little box with art, not books. It brightened…