December 5, 2011 By: Ron Swanson
Did it get your attention? It certainly got mine. There I was suffering through one of the most frustrating seasons of golf in recent memory and all of a sudden I felt like the “Honey Badger.” If you are not familiar with the honey badger Google it. Briefly stated, “Honey badger, he don’t give a…
November 21, 2011 By: Barbara Downes
This time each year starts the onslaught of too much food and too little activity. The average person gains 9-13 pounds between now and the New Year! I am suggesting we need to consider Thanksgiving in terms of activities and festivities rather than feast to help keep it light and vibrantly healthy. Festivities seem to…
November 14, 2011 By: Laurie Curtis
Everyone has a sweet tooth—especially at this time of year when comfort foods abound. Apple butter, a sweet sensation low in cane sugar, is sure to appeal to most family members and guests over any holiday whatever their age. You don’t intend to serve PB&J sandwiches substituting apple butter for jelly any time soon? Well,…
October 31, 2011 By: Ron Swanson
My daughter, known in my ramblings as “Gwaltney”, and one of her friends joined Brick Bodies about 18 months ago. This year they took part in the Baltimore Marathon and I, being a proud and very impressed Dad, asked her to write about her experience. “You’re too slow to run a marathon!” Never in my…
October 24, 2011 By: Barbara Downes
Getting ready for this scariest “holiday” of the year? Well, it scares me because it ushers in flu season. How amazingly close that follows after Americans ingest over $2 billion worth of junque sugar! Sugar is probably the most damaging thing we ingest. To binge on it in the form of cheap, mass produced bio-junque…
October 10, 2011 By: Laurie Curtis
We feel great after intense exercise. And when the workout is behind us, so gooood! Such sense of accomplishment is ours, especially if we’ve pushed our increasingly diminutive girth out the door and made it to the gym in dismal, rainy weather. After raising our endorphins through vigorous activity, we’re happy. Or maybe not. What…
September 26, 2011 By: Ron Swanson
Unless you read last month’s blog this will make little or no sense to you and, in addition, all of my attempts at levity will be totally missed. What a pity. By the way, my week is going to have more than 7 days in it ‘cause I need just a little more time. Continuing…
September 19, 2011 By: Laurie Curtis
If not an athlete of some accomplishment, one needs to be, at least, an extremely good sport to summer on a tiny sailboat. Why? Well, for starters, here are four factors you might consider. 1. Tight Quarters: Sharing and fitting into a minute space is not at all like fitting into white jeans left behind on…
September 12, 2011 By: Barbara Downes
It is predicted that by 2015, 75% of adults will be overweight and 41% will be obese. This is tragic as it is obesity sets the stage for many cancers, and diabetes, as well as a host of hormonal disorders as far cells procude estrogen. Obesity and all its disease-ramifications is so very preventable. Here…
August 29, 2011 By: Ron Swanson
With him driving I cover our retreat like a two-gun gunslinger as we high-tail it out of the woods…