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Global warming took the weekend off. A foot of snow, lots of ice and fierce winds. This Monday morning, up early and out to the barn to turn on the heat…dark, wind howling like wolves on the edge of...

Here’s a counter-intuitive bit of advice: rather than tapering off in this hectic season, do a little more on the workout front. For a bunch of reasons, I have been doing that (going to an hour and a half...

There are joys to the “home gym” that nothing can touch. This weekend there was an ice storm in Northwest Connecticut…a thin rime of ice over everything. Got up at six (like old guys everywhere) and went out to...

Just in case you missed it, take a look at my piece on the home page today…about these sensational new hearing aids. A major break through, just when a lot of us are beginning to need it. Take a...

This is familiar stuff but endlessly interesting to me. I am off to Aspen at the end of January for a long ski trip. Through inattention to detail, I will be 73 years old. So I have to do...

There’s a good piece in The Times this morning about feasting. Turns out, the norm for this day is some 4500 calories, heavy on fat. And that that puts a wild strain on your body. A spike in heart...