We admit it: we love to hike, bike and explore. Most days we walk many kilometers. Some days we even walk many miles. And while walking and hiking and biking are certainly good exercise none of them do much for our flexibility or our core muscles. Lately we’ve been starting our day with a you-tube…
Category: Health
My New Sleeping Buddy
My New sleeping Buddy Marilyn and I have been sleeping together for almost 38 years {OK, I can not lie. She might have snuck in once or twice before we wed. But don’t tell anyone OK?} and during that time we’ve had a few sleeping buddies hanging with us at night. First of all it…
Mighty Fine Week
It’s been a couple of weeks since my “blood pressure event” and I am certainly feeling better. I’m stronger, my stamina is coming back, I can walk, I can talk. even my brain seems to be making a return to its former confused and extremely short attention span self. I’m going to put the…
Short Story
As I see it, here’s what happened: a mature guy who should know better gets a little sloppy with his cholesterol and blood pressure meds. As time goes by, he and his wife are out enjoying nature every day, hiking their butts off, and as a result his knees get sore. Now he adds …
It’s Been A Week
If I was to tell you the story of my week and then you told me about yours, who do you think would have the best tale? Mine actually starts a couple of weeks ago when I get the cold. I call it THE cold because it’s the same one that everybody else in…
Veterinarian or Ventriloquist?
What’s it going to be? Either way these people can get you there Udemy Lynda.com Udacity Khan Academy Codeacademy Bloc Iversity Coursera These sites, and many more just like them, all offer online education programs. For example, a few years ago I took a course on writing. My Australian professor and I would get together…
Cookin’ With The Vanstones
As you’ll recall, last August we decided we were going to kick gluten and see if that helped Marilyn’s skin rash. As time goes on, and it appears we are on to something and we burrow further and further into eating no gluten we seem to be eating out a lot less often. Even going out for wings…
Colonoscopy
Today is a big day in Marilyn’s life. It’s the day that she goes for her first ever colonoscopy. I’m sure that most of you have you own stories of this memorable procedure and I would love to hear the, I really would. But in my mind, my favorite writer Dave Barry tells it best. Here’s Dave’s story about going for the…
Cancer Free
Those Lilac bushes not only look good, right now they smell pretty fine too. It was about a year ago that I had my first test after surgery for prostrate cancer. The results then were just fine, as they were last fall just before we headed out. One of the first things on the agenda when we…