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Ten Acts of Healthy Rebellion
Pilar Gerasimo shares her top-10 list from the “101 Revolutionary Ways to Be Healthy.”
Have It Your Way
Defying convention can be incredibly satisfying. But it can also invite a whole lot of trouble.
Clutter’s Continuity
Pilar Gerasimo on keeping up with life’s day-to-day clutter.
PUMPING IRONY: March Madness?
When it’s 70 degrees in March, watching basketball on TV really loses its appeal.
PUMPING IRONY: Can You Say ‘Healthy Brain’ in French?
French lessons haven’t made me fluent, but at least my brain’s getting a good workout.
PUMPING IRONY: My Achilles Heel
When I decided to get back on the basketball court a few weeks ago, my main concerns involved sprained ankles, blown-out knees, dislocated fingers and minor heart attacks. I had no idea that my Achilles tendons would capture so much of my attention.
PUMPING IRONY: Playing the Lottery
The old colonoscopy debate was renewed again last week, when researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York released…
PUMPING IRONY: The Trouble With Hearing
For several weeks now, I’ve been having some trouble with my hearing.
What’s Your Passion?
It’s not just a cocktail-party question. It’s the key to discovering a dream life you can start living now.
The Pursuit of Healthiness
None of the positive changes we hope to make as a society can be sustained without the energy and resilience of a whole lot of healthy, vital people.
PUMPING IRONY: How to Grow Old
I’m not the kind of guy who regularly visits the doctor, but if I were and if I lived in…
PUMPING IRONY: An Aging Rookie
It’s often said of rookies who have graduated from the college hardwood to NBA arenas that they have to wait for the game to “slow down” before they can feel comfortable with a basketball in their hands.
PUMPING IRONY: Danger Signs?
I had an interesting revelation last week. After a long absence, I headed downstairs to the gym after work on Tuesday and dragged myself through about a 45-minute workout, including a stint on my old nemesis, the Elliptical Death Machine, and a trip to The Pit, where I got reacquainted with some heavy (for me) iron.
What’s Your Plan?
At several points in our lifetimes, most of us wind up pondering what the heck we are doing here, and what we want to do next.
A Life to Die For
Life is short. The possibilities are endless. Therein lies the rub — and a golden opportunity to get clear about your real priorities.
Push Through the Finish
Within every challenging goal lies an opportunity for self-discovery – and a platform for self-mastery.
PUMPING IRONY: You’re Not Getting Older, You’re Getting Stronger . . .
My daughter, The Boss Mare, called me from Michigan this morning to report that she’d had a flat tire on…
PUMPING IRONY: Living Longer — the Old-Fashioned Way
Everyone wants to live a long and healthy life, right? So doesn’t it just make sense to develop a drug that eliminates the cells in your body that contribute to aging?
Happy Endings
In the rush and muddle of our daily lives, though, we sometimes neglect to appreciate how much of our present reality hinges on the course of events that could have turned out very differently.
Refill, Please!
An alarming convergence of overlapping Gantt charts, my life suddenly looks like it’s being meted out in 15-minute increments – because it is.