Health alert: Get to Know Your PCP!

How well do you know your primary care physician (PCP)?  Have you been with him/her for a long or a short time?  How old do you think s/he is?  How long in his/her practice? These aren’t questions we’re inclined to spend time thinking about. Maybe we, as third agers, should be more attentive to this […]

Celebrating #100!!

Well, dear readers.  This is blog #100.  My thanks to those of you who have endured my iconoclasm, sarcasm, rants, wanderings, mild plagiarism, and occasional drivel for the last two years and still open the weekly email. I never imagined getting this far down the blogging road.  According to one source I came across, most […]

Does Your Favorite Presidential Candidate Have a Food Platform?

  Hold on – I’m not going all political on you.  I’m in the same place you are – dumbfounded by how far off the tracks we’ve gone in government leadership and common sense. That’s stuff for another article – somebody else’s article because I’m not writing it. But a New York Times piece entitled […]

Have You Put An Expiration Date on Learning?

“Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem.  That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily, and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all.” So says Thomas Szasz, Hungarian-American academic, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst. Mr. Szasz’s […]

August Is An Important Month On Your Life Calendar

August in Colorado.  Hot, dry, rather boring except for Palisade peaches and Olathe sweet corn.  Asking ourselves: “How did another summer slip through our fingers?” Browning lawns, back to the dreaded school zone speed limits and regretting the time wasted watching pre-season NFL games. I  signed up to speak at my Toastmaster club last week.   […]

One Woman’s Quest to Restore Good Nutrition

The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, said: “Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.” That quote was shared with me by Susan Buckley, Registered Dietitian and the Nutrition Manager at South Denver Cardiology, one of Denver’s premier cardiac […]