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2 MINUTE EXERCISES FOR SCREEN SLAVES: No. 4

Exercise to relax hands and eyes

2-MINUTE EXERCISES FOR SCREEN SLAVES, No. 3

Be a healthier screen slave!

TWO-MINUTE EXERCISES FOR SCREEN SLAVES: No. 2

The first exercise was back-and-forth, this one is up-and-down, good to refresh circulation in the legs and get the heart pumping. Based on a Dao Yin exercise.

TWO-MINUTE EXERCISES FOR SCREEN SLAVES

This is the first of a series of exercises to help you be a pain-free screen slave. They are simple exercises that tone your neck, hands, eyes, and lower back. No equipment, special clothing, or space needed. For this first one, I’m indebted to Lee Holden.

REAL MEN’S RESPONSES: WHICH ONE WOULD YOU ANSWER

Back when I was dating, more than ten years ago, I was about to give up the dating sites but wrote one last post before signing off. Here are some of the 65 responses I received. Which one(s) would you answer?* a) Would you be interested in talking to an honest man who is inContinue reading “REAL MEN’S RESPONSES: WHICH ONE WOULD YOU ANSWER”

CHRISTMASES PAST

Christmas of 1965 was spent in Kfar Orah, Israel. It was an ordinary day, since everyone around me was Jewish. From the hill where I was staying, I could see Bethlehem. There was a star sitting directly above it, and I thought hmm, stars don’t move much in two thousand years; maybe that’s what theContinue reading “CHRISTMASES PAST”

WHAT BOOKS I’M GIFTING THIS CHRISTMAS

A list of reading pleasures, suitable for the gift-giving/reading time of year.

WHAT I LEARNED, AND DIDN’T, SINGING IN A WOMEN’S PRISON

My women’s choir sang once at a women’s prison. The choir members were conservative, liberal, and apolitical, Catholic, Jewish, Orthodox, and atheist, old, young, gay and straight, yet they all felt they were contributing something meaningful to the inmates’ lives.

STAYING FIT OVER SIXTY

Finding a routine that can be sustained indefinitely, or changed every week, was a creative challenge, but we’re old enough to do what we like and not give a damn, right?