lost and found in retirement
This week I wrote a guest column for the Bandwagon on the Road newsletter. The theme for the week was expectations. The following paragraph comes from my column, Great Expectations of Weight Loss Surgery. Be sure to visit Bandwagon on the Road and read it in its entirety. This weekly newsletter always offers me good advice and support as a weight loss surgery patient. It is…
On Christmas Day at my father-in-laws farm, I was thumbing through his copy of Reminisce magazine. I came across a short gem in a reader-contributed column, “Rules for a Perfect Day.” The contributor remembered that many restaurants printed these rules on menus in the 60s. The magazine highlighted three of these rules. These rules have stood the test of time and are just as pertinent…
Welcome to the New Year! Sales of all the things we need to live a healthy life replace the past month’s parade of holiday sales. Helping people achieve their New Year Resolutions is big business. Advertizing has gone crazy for weight loss plans, healthy foods, fitness centers, and just about anything to promote a healthy lifestyle.
January 1 New Year’ Day saw a change in how I would approach New Year resolutions. I had spent four months researching and building a wellness vision. The more I found out about how a wellness vision worked, the more I was convinced that it was for me. As part of this new vision, I made the decision to refocus this blog to talk about…
2011 was my sixth year of blogging. In January, I redesigned the look and feel of the blog. I also changed the focus to my thoughts on healthy living from a bariatric patient’s point of view. My posts support the blog’s theme of “One Man’s Journey of Diet + Fitness + Health + Wellness = Happiness”. As I finish my first year of blogging with…
2011 was the year I joined the iPhone family. I have to admit that this phone is the best phone I have ever had. It really meets my needs and has a very intuitive user interface and abundance of apps. I gave it a good test on my summer cycling tour. I was able to blog, post YouTube videos, browse the web, track my route,…
Today, I begin a weeklong series of “Top 5…” posts. These are snippets of 2011 from different perspectives. I am starting this series with the top five photos of the year. I like to take photographs. I stop short of calling myself a photographer. I take photos to capture and chronicle my life experiences. My camera is always with me on vacation, bike rides, fairs,…
Ralphie, the main character in A Christmas Story, wanted an Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle more than anything from Christmas. A Christmas Story really brings back my childhood memories of Christmas morning. Like Ralphie, my brother, sister and I always had that one gift that was the matter of life and death that we just had to get from Santa.