It seems that we prefer almost any activity over the risk of being bored. It’s human nature to want to avoid that feeling of nothingness. Fortunately (or unfortunately), technology has provided us with an array of choices, Netflix, texting, playing computer games, watching television—all designed to fill those mental spaces… Read More »How the Gift of Boredom Can Rock Your Retirement!
This post started off as a litany of complaints about my difficulty with cooking while in pain from osteoarthritis, a condition I blogged about last week. I was all set to whine about not being able to find helpful kitchen tools, but soon discovered I was wrong; instead, I found… Read More »Gracefully Age in Place with the Help of Scientists, Inventors and Robots!
It took the near-destruction of a country to achieve what the rest of the world couldn’t—the highest ratio of women to men in their governing body. Today, Rwanda, a tiny land-locked country in East Africa, has the greatest proportion of women representatives of any country in the world, with women… Read More »Gender Equality in Public Office—Why Are We So Far Behind?
Your hands might be the most overworked part of your body. You need them to perform hundreds of actions every day from brushing your teeth to lifting a pot from the stove. What would you do if every time you gripped an item, you suffer stabbing pains in your hand?… Read More »Hand Weakness and Pain—an Isolated Flareup or Something Worse?
Telling lies is part of the fabric of being human. People, especially politicians, lie to inflate their image, others lie to gain unjust rewards, and sometimes people lie simply because it’s easier than telling the truth. ‘Harmless’ social lies fall into this last category—telling small white lies is a deeply… Read More »No You Don’t Look Fat, and Other Lies
“Hungry?” Bob asks as we climb the stairs to our favorite restaurant. This is just one of the ways, I realize that we differ—I go to a restaurant to enjoy the respite from housework, to relax and have someone else do the cooking, and Bob goes to….well, eat. “Not really… Read More »Efficiency on the Menu
Here it is, 5:30 in the morning, and I’m still waiting for inspiration to strike. Crack! Something hits me on the right side of my head, somewhere between the four hemispheres of the cerebrum and the cerebellum. “Hey,” I yell, “Not so hard—that hurt!” It’s my Muse, and she’s obviously… Read More »I Need to Find Another Muse
Ever since I bought Jane Fonda’s Workout Book in 1982, Jane and I have been working out together. Get those knees up, Diane, she would say, you have to feel the burn. Don’t be afraid to put some real effort into it. Other people have bought her book, I’m… Read More »Jane Fonda and Me, Working Out Together for Over 30 Years
If you are older, you probably watch television—many of us do. And if you watch American TV, you’ve seen hundreds of ads for prescription medications, and you’ve listened to long lists of warnings about their side effects. It’s only during the past twenty years that drug companies have been given… Read More »Direct Selling of Prescription Drugs—How Big Pharma Soft Pedals Side Effects
Every once in a while, I feel my appointments are running my life—I keep a calendar on the side of the fridge, where only I can see it, yes, it’s the old-fashioned kind, a page ripped out of a giveaway calendar, but it gives me a clear view of the… Read More »How Not to Let Appointments and Commitments Take Over Your Life!
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