Aging Is Not Predicable
Stop being so darn predicable with yourself. When grocery shopping, buy (and eat) some new vegetable, to expand your food choices. More food choices lead to more life choices. Better life choices lead to...
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Immigrants
Your car is German. Your vodka is Russian. Your pizza is Italian. Your kebab is Turkish. Your democracy is Greek. Your coffee is Brazilian. Your movies are American. Your tea is Tamil. Your shirt...
How To Create Your Fabulous Myth
Each time I watch the movie, The Usual Suspects, I think I am going to finally figure out all the plots and characters. I never do. Who is Kaiser Sosay? Does he exist? Or is...
5 Steps, 1 Reason: Aging Intelligently
An intelligent aging process begins when you decide it does. If you are not paying attention, don’t be surprised that you are not aging well. It isn’t luck, or genes, or living in a...
Why Smell is Important to Brain Function
A long time ago, even before I was born, smell was considered an important sense. It warned us of toxic berries on plants, poisons in food, rancidity of meat, and unpleasant people smells. We...
Ouch. Snap. Son of a ……..
You fall on your hip, bang your shoulder, or rounding a desk, gouge your thigh. It causes bruising and annoyance. Exceedingly bad words spew from your mouth. Your body recovers from you not paying...
How Old Are You, Really?
We tend to think of getting old as linear age. It comes at the end of our lives. We’re getting older every day, and eventually we get old. Then, I suppose, we die. In...
Hippopotamus, Hippocampus
Lizards grow new tails when theirs is lost due to pretators. Sea cucumbers, when cut into pieces, will grow into separate, new sea cucumbers. Sharks can grow new teeth. But we, as humans, cannot...
How Water Creates Health
Most people think that they drink enough water, but when measured, they find that they drink significantly less than they think. We have the same misconception about thirst. We think we need water only...
How Gratitude Affects Aging
When I arrived at the bakery yesterday morning, I was informed that they had not made any 8” pumpkin pies for the holidays. Instead, for the same price, I would receive a 10” pie. I...