no body's perfect

I am rowing a boat along a river.   The river is flowing down a slope and I am headed uphill, against the current; it is very hard work. ...

A friend asked me why I devote so much time and energy to staying in shape.   “What is your goal?” he asked.   Perhaps he thought I was p...

My parents were married in June of 1942.   The following year a male child was born and died shortly afterward; he was a “blue baby” with...

Our handyman was standing in our upstairs hallway talking on his cell phone.  He had been interrupted in the middle of a job he was doing f...

One of the more discouraging parts of clothes shopping used to be looking in the mirror at my back and seeing the rolls of flesh around the...

“It’s impossible to spot reduce; you can’t lose fat from your stomach by doing sit-ups or crunches.”   Kinesiologists have been saying th...

Starting in 2007, I made a series of changes in my workout routine, adding stability ball exercises, then interval training, plyometrics, a...