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The Personal Pet Therapy Project: The Pets Pick Their Parts

As it’s become clear that Grandma Dorothy is here for an extended visit, the only ones not fretting about how it affects their lives are Murphy, Mr. Meow, and Tabby. They have enthusiastically embraced the mission of the personal pet therapy project and have eagerly selected their own assignments for my mom’s rehabilitation. Murphy As he does with all the other chores he helps me with, Murph is glad to lend a hand with my new added chores. Like yesterday. I hadn’t realized I needed to call Apria to have the oxygen tanks delivered each week. I thought they’d bring … Continue reading →

Friday Fitness Funnies: Stopping Smoking

You had to know this is where my focus would be this week and for me, writing about these things, poking fun at them, sharing the torment and the pride and the success – they are all positive ways for me to channel trying to defeat this addiction. I’ve been winning the battles, but I’m not ready to declare the war won yet. So for now, here are some Friday Fitness Funnies that focus on smoking and stopping smoking. Quotes on Smoking For thy sake, Tobacco, I would do anything but die. — Charles Lamb, 1775-1834 I have every sympathy … Continue reading →

Friday Fitness Fun Facts, Did You Know?

The human body is an amazing thing. So for our Friday entertainment today and because it’s always nice to take a bit of a lighter tact on Fridays, (And how did it get to be Friday again – it was just Halloween – I feel like someone hit the fast-forward button on the week!) here are a few fascinating and fun facts about your body. The Brain Your brain weighs about three pounds and all but 10 ounces of it is water. So, technically speaking, we’re all water heads and no one is an airhead. If you stub your toe, … Continue reading →

Dear Fitness Readers

Hey there, do you have a minute? I want to talk to you a sec about all the crazy running we do. Recently, I was talking to a friend of mine and she told me – emphatically – that I needed to take a three-day weekend and just shut it all down. I can’t say she’s wrong, I need a break and I’m already planning to take one the week of Thanksgiving, but that’s four and a half loooooong weeks away. So until then – here are some suggestions for distressing that I plan to put into practice myself: Meditation … Continue reading →

The Week in Review: September 9 –15

Welcome to our week in review. This week saw the fifth anniversary of September 11th and all the memorials, sadness and tales of heroism that entails. While it’s important to remember, it’s also equally important that we continue forward, making our world a better place so that hopefully none that come after us have to experience a similar tragedy. Here is your Week in Review for Fitness: September 9 We talked about Walking – is it better to do it incrementally or all in one go. There are multiple schools of thought on this, but as with all forms of … Continue reading →

Friday Fitness Funnies: Laughter Does a Brain Good

I like to go and look up Fitness funnies every Friday and I try to populate this blog with humorous stories now and then. As it turns out, my reasoning was that humor does a body good, but what humor does the mind good. There are plenty of physicians still debating the merits of humor, but did you know that there is an American Association of Therapeutic Humor? I didn’t. Though I have to admit, the idea that there are physicians and associations out there who take in serious note the fact that humor can be a healing tool brings … Continue reading →