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I have to exercise in the morning before my brain figures out what I’m doing. ~Unknown Demographics Update: They are dropping like flies! The back row has now become the front row by default. There are only 3 other fellow boot campers in attendance. Maybe it is a warm bed that is keeping the gang [...]
I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me. ~ Mark Twain Demographics Update: The other card-carrying AARP member is not here today. It will be a bit more peaceful not listening to his heavy breathing for a solid hour. He even grunts when we are stretching in the warm-down…not sure why. A couple [...]
I really don’t think I need buns of steel. I’d be happy with buns of cinnamon. ~ Ellen DeGeneres My thoughts precisely. It is Saturday morning. Shouldn’t I be at Dunkin’ Donuts getting some energy supplied by sugar and caffeine to start the day? No, I am going for peptide hormones that bind to opiate [...]
WEEK 1: Demographics: Total participating: 8 Female: 5 Male: 3 Ages: Young enough to be my kids (Early to mid-twenties): 6 participants Already received AARP cards in the mail: 2 participants Logistics: I take my place in Row 3: The Back Row. Far corner. Close to bathroom. Close to water. Two other “Campers” in my [...]
Were the stars aligning or was it the perfect storm? In my morning’s onslaught of emails carrying many fabulous offers of cheap eats and cheap travel, I got an email whose subject line was asking me if I wanted to “challenge myself and kick start my metabolism.“ Being firmly entrenched in the fifth decade of [...]
“How old do you feel inside?” That was not a question I was planning on asking myself at 6:30am…but, it caught my attention as I paged through the newspaper this morning. It is a wonder that I actually saw it since I blame my blurry vision on not age, but, having to get my eyes [...]
When it’s fully charged, you have nothing to worry about. You aren’t thinking about how long you’ve been on the phone. Nothing can stop you! Let those minutes add up! Then you hear the beep-beep…the call of the low battery. You get a little nervous. How much time do you really have left? Not sure. [...]
Everyone needs a reason to get up in the morning. Everyone needs a place to go. Everyone needs something to do. Even when you are 100 years old! Let us take a page from the Banana Man’s playbook! Check out this amazing centegenerian’s gift of time and bananas. Making good things happen at 100! We [...]
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