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Add Customer Service to Your Life
While spending a week at Rancho la Puerta resort I decided to focus my photo eye on themes – sculptures, peaceful settings, contemplation – which all sort of ended up being folded in one category –...
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Sightseeing Counts as Exercise
On a whim, I decided to take my son and a friend to Los Angeles for the day to do some sightseeing. It’s a 90-mile drive, which means about 4 hours in the car for the round trip (traffic willing),...
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Loving Kindness Meditation: Easy and Accessible
Easily Meditated Have you heard of loving kindness meditation? It’s the simple practice of directing good thoughts and wishes to others. (Except that one guy who is so irritating especially when he...
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Protect Your Vision as You Age
At breakfast I told a friend how sad I will be if (or when) my 19-year-old son fully loses his vision. He has Retinitis pigmentosa (RP), which refers to a group of inherited diseases causing retinal...
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No-Crunch Abs for Boomers
It’s No-Crunch Abs Time! Minimize Ab Exercises and Core Work that Require Lifting your Head or Bending your Neck Want a stronger set of abs without having to do crunches or flex the spine at the neck?...
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Packing the Right Outfit for Travel
I need your help choosing the right outfit for our upcoming trip to Europe. AmaWaterways Cruise Ship In less than two weeks, Kymberly and I are going on “The Enchanting Rhein River” cruise with...
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Having Difficulty Losing Weight?
Are you having difficulty losing weight despite exercising and eating healthfully? It could be your weight loss is getting sabotaged by factors you’d never guess. Three sneaky saboteurs may be in play...
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What’s Your Super Power?
The ship we’ll be on. Not because we’re Prima Donnas or anything….. “What is your super power?” Have you ever considered where your powers excel? When guest instructing recently at Rancho la Puerta...
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Stretch Hamstrings Correctly: 3 Doofus & 3 Expert Ways
Stretch Hamstrings the Right Way Want more benefit from your hamstring stretches? (You are devoting some of your workout time to stretching, right?) Avoid the most common form faults. Be uncommon, just...
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You CAN Go Home Again
Sis and I recently went back to our hometown for our 40th high school reunion. And what did we discover?! That you can go home again. The Manhattan Beach Pier looks about the same as it did in 1976,...
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5 Reasons to Attend Strength Training Classes
Whether you call them strength training classes, body conditioning class, or weight training classes, bottom line is the older you get, the more you need them! You want to get in better shape? Return...
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Rüdesheim with AmaWaterways: Riesling, Castles and a Musical Cabinet Museum
Even if you cannot pronounce “Rüdesheim,” you’ll want to visit this picturesque German town that sits at the south end of the Rhein Gorge, a 41-mile section of the river that has the world’s greatest...
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12 Healthy Food Trends
Recently IDEA Food and Nutrition Tips, a magazine for fitness industry professionals, published an article I wrote for them about twelve healthy food trends. For this post, I thought I’d share a few...
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Bike Riding in Cologne Along the Rhein River
The Romans probably settled in Cologne (Köln in German) in 50 BC because they’d heard about the fantastic bike riding views along the Rhein River. Or because of its natural harbor. Either way. One of...
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Best Exercise to Improve Memory
The best exercise you can do to improve memory is …. Uh, hold on while I jog my memory. Did you see the hint I embedded in that prior sentence? Based on the last 10 years of what is now overwhelming...
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A Focus On Gratitude Can Improve Your Health
With the Thanksgiving frenzy just past, I decided to take a quiet, post-holiday moment to contemplate what I’m thankful for. I want to stay healthy, even through stressful, uncertain times, and know...
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What’s Wrong with Your Workout?
What do you suspect is wrong with your workout? I’m talking the numero uno problem when it comes to most adults and exercise routines. Any guesses? In thinking about why most U.S. adults do not succeed...
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Create the Best Workout Programs for Your Over 50 Body
Let’s start the year successfully by designing the best workout programs for your bodacious baby boomer body! How would you like to make your workouts even more effective, time-efficient, and specific...
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Create the Best Possible Over 50 Workouts: Part 2
I (K)need to Step Aside Baby Boomer Workouts Do you have great things planned for your second half of life? Having said that, do you find yourself working around added aches and pains? Are you...
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Over 50? Create the Best Workouts Possible: Part 3
The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Moving Key Exercise Principles to Consider if You’re Over 50 Over 50 and wanting workouts designed specifically for your active aging goals and body? Whether you...
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