New Years is the time, natch, to renew our promises to oursleves to be good kids in the next year. To be Younger Next Year, in fact. Here is a good – albeit slightly commercial – idea. START A...

I like the holidays, i truly do. For example, I brought home a tree so vast that it took me three hours to get it into the house, and this is a big house. (Final answer: tie the boughs...

Sometimes, in the dead of winter, a nice day pops up. Like a crocus. Like today. Forty degrees, sun, no wind or rain. QUICK run out the door, jump on your bike and go for it. I did this...

Look, everyone knows you have to pull up your socks and go nuts on the day after New Years or all will be lost. Gym memberships soar, fitness resolutions are written in blood and so on.But it’s not a...

There was a great article in the Friday NYTimes by Jane Brody. Basic message: “Exercise, Exercise, Exercise.” “A 30 minute walk on most days is just not enough”. “There is a dire need for exercises that improve posture and...

One of the nice things about getting a tad older is that experience is layered…lots of stuff, past and present, going on at the same time. Like this. Last night, Hilary and I were at the Algonquin here in...