Healthy and Simple

I have a friend who has just undergone a mastectomy. She has cancer.  She recently came to a party we were throwing. Okay, it was our wedding.  I was afraid she would not be able to attend because she was going to have her first chemotherapy treatment the day before the wedding, but she came [...]

Here’s some more words of wonderful wit and wisdom  – ok wit – from Dave Barry.
“I realize that I’m generalizing here, but as is often the case when I generalize, I don’t care.”

“I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV [...]

I was going to write something fascinating and intellectually provocative but then I decided to take a nap instead. When I woke up I’d forgotten what I was going to write about, but I felt great, really relaxed.That’s why naps are so important, they help clear the mind.

I think humorist Dave Barry speaks for all of us when he says:
“If you were to open up a baby’s head – and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should – you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland.”

“In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high [...]

I grew up in a house where if there wasn’t meat on the plate you didn’t consider it a meal. Everything from breakfast to supper usually contained some form of meat – though it was England which means many of them were so heavily boiled/roasted/grilled that they were indistinguishable from each other.
But now it turns [...]

I have often gone to the gym and worked out on a treadmill,  elliptical, or stair master machine and after working out wiped down the handles and everywhere I have touched, just so the next person doesn’t have to put up with my cooties.
When I work with free weights I’m careful not to touch my face [...]

These words of wisdom are courtesy of Dave Barry. Just don’t tell him. He might want us to pay him for them.
Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.

For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.

Geographically, Ireland is a [...]

Lots of people point to the lack of things as one of the reasons they don’t work out as much as they would like; the lack of time; the lack of a convenient gym; the lack of energy. But really, the only thing stopping you from being active anywhere, anytime, is a lack of imagination. [...]

Here are some more things we stole – er make that liberated from Dave Barry. He was done with them anyway so what difference does it make!
Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.

Guys are simple… women are not simple and they always assume that men must [...]

Some friends of ours recently visited San Francisco from England. We had many conversations during their stay and asked them to write an article about some of their perceptions about America. Vicki Wiles is a nurse and genetic counselor, these are her thoughts.
“We love visiting America. We love the sunshine after England’s grey skies, the [...]