I started Tai Chi in 1999, it was something I always wanted to do. I thought then and I believe it now to be the very best exercise in the world. The reason is, it is scalable to your fitness levels. If you are fit you can make it very hard and if you are… (Read More)
15 years of Tai Chi and still learning Read More »
Every New Years I review my life and what happened last year vs what I had planned. Then I build a plan for this year and go merrily on my way. Of course in a year I’ll wonder what the heck happened. Some of it goes better and some worse than expected. I love a
Don’t screw it up, you only have one body. Read More »
I recently read this in a retirement blog and thought it was fantastic. We can argue about many points in it BUT for the things you can control it works. If you get hit by a car well then stop by the office. Everything you are now is the result of choices you made 5,
Short term and long results. Read More »
I have this cool picture of my child and this saying below it. “just breathe, this is the last time you will ever be this old”. All sports, religions, mental and emotional guru’s emphasis breathing. I have a saying I picked up somewhere. “There must be a God to hard-wire breathing into us. Otherwise we’d
Don’t forget to breathe. Read More »
How easily a study or two can change everything. In 1930 Vit D was a miracle cure for you name it. Zip up to 1950 and a study IN-CORRECTLY though vit D was causing high calcium levels in patients. Then in India circa 1980 we get another study saying the same thing and that was
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Speed is a relative term in sailing. With the new America cup boats going 20-40 knots (sailing jargon for real slow compared to a car) we are able to go as fast as a kid on a peddle bike. The average sailing boat is going 5-10 mph. So a quick walk to a so so
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This weekend our crew of 12 kids and 6 bigger kids (adults) spent hours and hours turning a normal sail boat into a Pirate Boat. So around 200 kids who are ‘handy-capable’ could come in converted power boats to marauding Pirate boats and steal our treasure. It was all part of the annual Variety Club
The dental implant went okay, but the skin graft donor site. Well that did not go so well and I ended up getting some medical intervention. There I was feeling sorry for my self, I had just started chewing again (previous to that it was all liquid) and things where looking perfect and bang it
Keeping on Keeping on Read More »
At 10pm it felt like someone brushed my chin. At 2am it felt like someone punched me in the chin. At 6am I was in my car driving to my doctor’s office. He asked why I was there, I SCREAMED my chin was killing me. He said go to the Dentist. That’s when I learned
Pain is a good teacher Read More »
Know any workaholics? Likely you can look in the mirror and there you are. If not you can read on to find out a bit about the inner working of one. For many of us we no longer go out into the wilds and kill supper, drag it back to the shack and cook it
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