LIFE IS AN ENDURANCE EVENT: TRAIN FOR IT. WITH A TRAINER IF YOU CAN. I hate working with a trainer. Hate spending the money… hate the pressure… hate being told what to do. So I mostly...
A nice success story…
Lourdes from Quito, Ecuador, South America Topic: when I was 51 years old I said to myself: time to relax and become an… old person?!!! Dear Chris: year after year I’ve got into a collection of kedges which were the...
A SUMMER VACATION FROM DUMB
Summer is no time for making drastic resolutions and whatnot… but here’s a simple,pleasant way to TAKE ADVANTAGE of a summer “natural” to begin to stop being dumb about something that’s, you know… killing you. The single dumbest...
OUR DAUGHTER IN THE WATER
Up at 3 a.m. … go to Battery Park to drop daughter Ranie and her husband Jorge so she can SWIM AROUND MANHATTAN!! 28 miles, with the tide both ways, we hope. Jorge rides in the control boat. SUCH...
“TRUE” JOINTS AND BOILING WATER
Poured a gallon of boiling water on foot ten days ago. Bad idea. Huge blisters and, in due time, infection, pain and shame. NOT POINT OF STORY, HOWEVER. Painful foot caused limp. Limp, in amazingly short time, caused very...
SUNDAY ROW
Over at our lake at 6:30 this fine Sunday morning… It was such a perfect day that there were already six cars in the little parking lot, up the hill and, eventually, a dozen boats on the water. Such...
