I'M BAAAACK.....

The last time I posted to this blog was on the first day of this year...I won't exactly tell you where I've been since then. Suffice it to say that I almost ran for State Representative and then didn't, almost got a couple of jobs out of town and then didn't, and spent an awful lot of time on Cape Cod licking my wounds and soothing my soul.

So what inspires me to start writing all of a sudden? Because I have decided that really, when you come down to it, I am an expert on "healthy aging" or maybe an incipient expert. But in any case I have decided that that is where I am going to put my energies for the next period of time. This may be a month, a year, a decade. After all there are rumors around that if I had been born in the 80's I would have been diagnosed with ADHD...but it's my blog and I'll laugh or cry if I want to.

So, in the category of healthy aging, there is TODAY'S accomplishment, and the place that I've been all this year. Today I "ran" a 5K. Now, the quotes are there because I covered 5K in geography. Sometimes I was running. Most of the time I was not. But I was moving the whole time...I didn't stop....and I finished, albeit 50 minutes later, but they didn't have to send the ambulance for me. As I passed all the "spotters" I told them "you can go home now...I'm the last person."

What this has encouraged me to do is:

1. Try to make my time under 40 minutes next year (or maybe the year after that...)
2. Start a "senior" or "Masters" division for the "Fun Run" (the "race" I was in...for me it wasn't a race it was an endurance contest!)next year and encourage other semi-out-of-shape over S*x*y's to join me...
3. Perhaps see this blog or some of my professional goals as becoming an expert on "Healthy Aging."

Trust me, it's where life is going...

I looked back at the post I did on the first day of this calendar year. I vowed to:


1. Hug my granddaughters
2. Visualize whirled peas
3. Eliminate teeth-grinding and other outward manifestations of stress
4. Be thankful for what I have (no materially but spiritually and emotionally...)
5. Be careful what I wish for
6. Stay hopeful
7. Love my family and friends
8. Try to make the world a better place
9. Keep checking things off on my "I've always wanted to...." list
10. Keep moving

So OK, I've started at the bottom and I will work my way up. Peace....