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Digging In
A backyard garden can connect us to the past — and channel hope for the future.
PUMPING IRONY: Collateral Damage
Already struggling before the pandemic struck, assisted-living facilities are hanging on for dear life — just like their residents.
PUMPING IRONY: Distant Relations
The modern nuclear family liberated us from the stifling constraints of the traditional multi-generational household, but it has exacted a painful toll on the elderly and is gradually losing its luster.
Defining “Healthy Way of Life”
Life Time’s tagline expands the notion of what healthy living truly means.
PUMPING IRONY: Lessons on the Links
A round of golf under the pandemic’s new rules offers an opportunity to glimpse a slice of post-confinement life — and appreciate the mundane as much as the miraculous.
PUMPING IRONY: Safety First?
Regular visits from our grandson have suddenly required more careful consideration even as the lessons he teaches us become increasingly more poignant.
PUMPING IRONY: Coffee Klatch
Ritual can help ease our anxiety during uncertain times, even if it involves grinding your own beans.
Vision Forward
Tools to help us create the future we want using lessons from the past and present.
PUMPING IRONY: Season’s Greetings
Who knew that our springtime of social isolation could spark so much conviviality?
Guiding Perspective
We all lead and follow in different aspects of our lives. To make the most of these opportunities, let’s do them both with intention.
PUMPING IRONY: Falling Apart, Coming Together
A brief outing to the grocery store demonstrates how the current pandemic can both test and heal us — if we remain open to all its lessons.
PUMPING IRONY: The Confinement Conundrum
The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing millions of elderly Americans to stay at home, where they’re forced to confront another major health challenge: loneliness.
PUMPING IRONY: Life, Death, and Language
Words matter when you’re facing a serious illness, and the traditional “risk-versus-benefit” approach to treatment options doesn’t always lead to the healthiest choices.
One Way or Another
A little self-reflection may reveal the personality traits that can help us keep driving toward our biggest goals.
PUMPING IRONY: Drink to Your (Brain) Health?
Recent research suggesting that poor hydration may be impairing cognitive function in older women has me wondering why thirst-averse geezers like me are somehow spared.
Years in the Making
Sometimes reaching our biggest goals takes more time, patience, and grit than we expect.
PUMPING IRONY: Medicare Mischief
A recent shift in Medicare reimbursement policies is roiling the home-healthcare industry. It should give pause to folks banking on a single-payer solution to our busted system.
PUMPING IRONY: Life Everlasting?
A renowned genetics pioneer argues that medical advances will someday allow humans to live well past 100 years. I can’t help wondering what would be lost in the process.
PUMPING IRONY: Short-Circuited
Danish researchers suggest that my diminutive stature as a youth makes it more likely I’ll develop dementia. I think they may be short-sighted.
PUMPING IRONY: The Perils of Pedaling
New Zealand researchers have found that bicycling to work may enhance your longevity. My own experience suggests they may be ignoring the possibility of fatal collisions.
PUMPING IRONY: Strong Medicine
New research on muscle mass and heart disease reminds me of a harsh lesson my dad taught me long ago: Never assume anything.