Nothing happens in this blog… just a pleasant day and night and day, on the sweet, shrinking island of our life. Hilary’s and mine. Meet early, Friday, to practice a teeny bit of law in New York, helping a...
Amazing Validation Of YNY Premise!
There was an astonishing piece in The New York Times yesterday about a study of SERIOUS EXERCISE and aging. The upshot: Do it and you don’t. That is, do heavy exercise – as we have urged for years now...
AMAZING EXERCISE
We’ve been roaring away for years about the wonder of exercise. Here’s a weird new piece: In today’s Times, there’s an article about HOW exercise works its magic. Turns out that the answer may be that it actually “changes...
MY POOR NEIGHBOR
Our beloved, next-apartment neighbor – who figures prominently in Thinner This Year as a living example of the importance of the limbic life, even deep in your 80’s – lost her “new” husband a few weeks ago. Awful damned...
Going to Hell in December
DECEMBER IS TOUGH for people trying to stay in decent shape. The weather is nasty…cold, wet and unwelcoming. The nights are sprinkled with parties and opportunities to eat and drink too much and the days are apt to be...
EQUIPMENT: THE BIKE FOR YOUR ETERNITY
A close friend turned 60 the other night and got an superb bike from an inventor/bike maker friend (see photo). My pal had previously given the inventor a walker, painted in British racing green, with serious attachments. The Birthday...
