Harry and I get some nice stories out of our books but not a lot that are better than this one.

My pal, Mike Arteaga, owns a hot health club in Poughkeepsie and has been in the business for thirty years. His mother is 83. And his been resisting his injunctions to exercise more for the last, oh, 43. Recently, he gave her YNY for Women, never dreaming she’d read it. In fact, she whisled through it in two days, went out and got herself a heart rate monitor (!) and is now hard at it, six days a week. Her kid, Mike, is impressed. Me too. By the way, she’s doing fine. Just fine. Plans to be a hell of a lot younger next year.