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Warning: Science ahead
A new study published in JAMA this morning followed 34,000 women for 12 years; their average age was 54. They found that the women who expended more than 21 METs per week while eating a usual diet maintained their weight; women who exercised less than that gained weight.
Walking at an average pace expends [...]
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I’ve found ways to cope with many of mid-life’s little potholes. Exercise helps. So does my mid-life brain compensating device.
But I have yet to figure out how to deal with the fact that, sometimes, when I open my mouth, what comes out is a cross between intelligent comments and the language of an alien planet. [...]
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OK, I’ve been trying to figure out how to encapsulate what this reunion was like. (Not the BIG reunion, which about 200 people attended. I didn’t recognize 175 of them. It was fun-ish, loud, dark, and hot.)
Then there was what happened the next night. Thirteen girlfirends got together for eight hours of REAL conversation about [...]
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Staying out until 1:30 in the morning. TWO NIGHTS IN A ROW.
And then getting up at 7:20 to catch a plane.
But, boy oh boy, was the slumber party fun!
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This weekend, I’m going to a slumber party. In Chicago.
It’s with two of my best friends from high school, Jan and Lynn.
We’re staying at Lynn’s dad’s house–the very same house where I told my mom I was staying one night in 1975. Of course, I said her parents were home. And that we would be [...]
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Look, nobody’s more surprised about this jumping out of planes thing than me. If you’d told me a month ago that I would be obsessed with learning how to do it, I’d have told you to refill the prescription for whatever you just stopped taking.
It was completely unimaginable.
Two people played a big role. They didn’t give me [...]
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You’ve seen a picture of this before:
This time, please notice the time on the stopwatch. Then add 1 minute and 40 seconds, bringing the total elapsed time to 57.05 or something.
[The extra 1.40 is because I walked to the park on the way out. I always walk the first two blocks, just to make sure [...]
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Just in case you think I cooked up my Wrinkerella self just in the last few months, let me assure you that I’ve been working on it for a long time.
41 years this month, to be exact.
All that’s missing now is the convertible turban.
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This weekend, we drove to Seattle for Lindsay’s wedding to Ben. It was a fun road trip and a blast to watch Lindsay, who I’ve known since she was 3, get married to a great guy.
Quite the do, too. Complete with eight bridesmaids, two maids of honor, and a bagpipe sandwich. Bagpipes, ceremony, bagpipes.
We also [...]
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I have new running shoes. I really, really like these shoes. I’ve had them about three weeks, and they’re very comfortable and fast. (Unlike me. I’ve reached the point in my running life where I can’t keep up with my shoes. This reminds me of the fairy tale about the little girl whose enchanted shoes [...]
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