Picture if you will: You are driving down the road, listening to NPR music, and the driver of the vehicle in front of you rolls down their window, you see smoke come out followed by a hand dropping low, pausing for a second or two, and then discreetly drops a cigarette butt to ground, followed [...]

Need a recipe? Jump on the computer, go to Google and search for what’s gnawing at your gut. Perhaps, you’ll just grab one of your cookbooks you purchased at your local Barnes and Noble that has shelves and shelves of books related to food and cooking. Simple. Contrary to what is commonplace today, published cookbooks [...]

Week #2 is in the books. I am one-third through the 6-week hundred push-ups training program. For those that also started this program as an old, overweight, out-of-shape individual, week two brings out the weakness in your abdominal muscles. Who knew push-ups would put a hurtin’ on your belly? The first two workout days of [...]

NOTE: This image here is not me, but rather how Wikipedia shows as the proper way to do a pushup. This is the standard I am using, where I go down to a 90-degree angle, and then back up. Whew! I have just completed Week 1 / Day 3 of my training to 100 push-ups [...]

Can an out of shape, overweight, 50-year old man do 100 push-ups in a row? Unlikely. I turn 50 in just over 3 months, and I am going to attempt to perform 100 push-ups on my birthday. Come along with me on my journey to success or failure. Since after Thanksgiving, I have been trying [...]

The insurance company totaled my 2005 Honda Element following my accident. I had to quickly figure out what car I wanted to replace it. I settled on the Volkswagen Golf TDI. The diesel will give me 45+ MPG, which is 20 MPG more than I got with the Element.