Cycling teaches us plenty. How to take care of ourselves. How to take care of others. How to handle change. Some of us just pick up the learning more readily than others. We can rationalize, avoid, and attack the things that we don’t want to do, but the natural world eventually wins out. Sort of…
Cycling really takes you places, the greatest of which is a place to think. The rhythm of breath and legs create a different mental setting. (I like to think of it as an action meditation) where problems float in, are looked at, turned upside down, and maybe even turned inside out. At the end of…
Nicotine and I were once friends. We had some good times together but nicotine is not the benign drug marketed to many generations. In fact, the substance is both a deadly poison, as well as a therapeutic agent. Let’s just clear away some of the smoke. A Light History Nicotine is a talented drug. It…
No Fat, low-fat, reduced fat, even fake fat, our focus on the fat content of our food has been an obsession for decades. The funny thing is that our assumption that all dietary fat was the bad guy was based on some faulty science. In light of new research and a willingness to look at…
Movement, our ability to move our physical body effectively, is typically one of those things we take for granted. Until we can’t. Simple injury, like sprains, strains, and even broken bones can sideline us temporarily but we’re usually back out participating in our normal lives after relatively short healing periods. The process of aging however,…
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