Tag: exercise
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When We Walk
I have always loved to walk and have accumulated many hours of memories and recorded thousands of impressions during my walking life. Walking always seems to have generated a heightened awareness in my senses stimulating my perception, my imagination, and my memories. My mind can at any moment wander back to walking home from Muhlenberg…
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More Healthy, More Happy!
Physical activity and movement, so important to humans, has somehow slipped away from us. We seem to have stopped moving ourselves around in our daily lives and started jumping into our cars to move us everywhere for everything. Many of us have jobs where we sit. We have cars that we sit in, and when…
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Temporarily Not Quite Least Obese
Back in October of 2010 I blogged about Colorado’s status as the country’s least obese state. I was happy to report that we maintained our status again in 2012. Well, the bad news is the new numbers are in and Colorado has lost our first-place rating as least obese to Montana! Montana??? Come on people…
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Grinding It Out
How many times have you had to do something that was not particularly appealing but just plain had to be done? Stuff like this is usually important or you wouldn’t even consider doing it, so you’ve just got to get it done. That is one of those times when you’ve just got to put your…
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The Life In Your Years
I just read a posting on a sort of “senior” website asking what do you see when you pass a 76-year-old woman on the street. The answer they were looking for was “nothing,” you don’t notice her at all. To that I say “so what?” When I walk down the street I don’t notice anyone…
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Making It Happen
I have arrived and every experience I have had up until this moment was in preparation for this moment. Now it is my responsibility to take this gift and do something fabulous with it. What do we have but this moment? What have you got to lose? A woman cannot sit around and feel sorry…
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Shine On
I recently read an article in Huffington post about 14 things that 50-somethings are happy to no longer stress about. I was surprised by one woman’s comment that she no longer stresses about wearing make – up or how her hair looks. In another article I read the inspiring story of a woman who coming…
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The Least Obese Again!
In October 2010 I blogged about an article in 5280 Magazine entitled “The Last Lean Americans” which reported Colorado’s obesity rates at about 15 to 20 percent to be the lowest in the nation. Well, Colorado has done it again in 2012. It’s not surprising that the state with a population as active as Colorado’s…
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Wealth Distribution and Longevity
Healthy at 100 was written by John Robbins in 2006 and here I am in 2012 just discovering this tome. I can’t put this book down because what Robbins says about growing old in western culture is spot on. He writes about the very real importance of good nutrition and about how exercise will really…
The Cat Box 