It is the season for exhilaration and, sometimes, the blues. I had a mild dose yesterday…bad sleep, touch of anxiety and, you know, massive self-loathing and despair. Thought very seriously of not rising at six to go to stinking...

Unlike virtually everyone else in the country – or so it seems – I do not have a bad back. Sadly we don’t have any universal advice about exercises to cure it either. What is an awfully good idea...

Here’s a dreary, Holiday note. Just spent an hour with our financial advisor, a very cosly gent who has not taught us anything new since we met. We hire him – crankily – just to come around once a...

I’ve been feeling a bit whiny lately, as the weather up in the Berkshires goes from unseasonably warm to normal. Which is to say, freezing cold and gray, even in my home gym. My spirits were revived by a...

Take a peek at the comments on the blogs sometime. Here’s a beauty, from Elysia in southern Oregon. I added the solid caps…it would not have occurred to her, I think. “This morning my guy and I rowed a...

Again, an urgent plug for a) joining a gym and b) joining an exercise class. I did not feel sensational this morning and would surely have flubbed if I had to make a bunch of decisions myself. But I...