Healthy and Simple

Next time you are at the park or the beach or just walking around your local shopping mall take a look around you at the kids. What do you see? I’m guessing that you’ll see a huge number of kids who are either overweight or downright obese. In some places it may be much harder [...]

What’s brown and sticky? A stick.

Have you ever snorkeled?  Well, living in Northern California it is not an easy sport to  take up.  One, the water in San Francisc0, where we live is frekkin’ cold; and two, you can’t see 2 feet in front of you underwater.  However, we were in Kauai for vacation recently and had a fantastic opportunity [...]

Where do you find a dog with no legs? Right where you left him.

Every once in a while I like to watch Entertainment Tonight or Extra or any of those other glossy TV magazine shows that follow the lives and loves of the famous and wanna-be-famous. I am always amazed at how few of the people they talk about are people I have ever heard of.
Now, I read [...]

It used to be said that America was as likely to elect a black President as it was for pigs to fly. 100 days into President Obama’s first term and guess what? Swine flu!

Did you hear about the new morning-after pill for men.
It changes your blood group!

It never ceases to amaze me how many conversations about health keep coming back to the same basic things. What you eat and what you do.
Now, what you do amounts to how much exercise you get, how active you are. The more you get the better off you are. It won’t keep you alive forever [...]

Remember that opening scene in the movie “The Sound of Music”, where Julie Andrews runs up a mountain and then bursts into song, singing “The hills are alive with the sound of music”. It’s a lie.
I’ve been doing hill running lately and by the time you reach the top the last thing you feel like [...]

A good friend is someone you can call to help you move apartments. A best friend is someone you can call to help you move a body!