I Ate the Worst Breakfast this Morning.

Sunday morning's are hard. The routine is different, and my regular schedule is messed up. My wife is getting ready at our sink, the kids sleep in a bit and I end up laying in bed watching the news. So, quite often I eat the worst breakfast possible. It's not what you'd think though. In fact, I wouldn't have described it this way until I read this afternoon a magazine headline that described my breakfast this morning. I ate nothing. Yep. I skipped my meal. Seems that people who regularly skip breakfast, have a 450% increase chance of obesity. Who would have thought!? You'd think that not eating a meal would make you thinner. So how about you? Have you done the worst thing possible...
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I admit I have a problem

I'm having a hard time admitting something. It all started about 2 months ago when I was in bed. I picked up a favorite magazine to read and it happened. My eyes seemed tired and blurry. I felt like there wasn't enough light in the room. I ended up putting the reading down and turning the light off -- blaming the heat for drying the house. And my eyes. This week I bought reading glasses. Alas, another glowing sign of my four-plus decades of existence. To this point, I've always bragged at my eye doctor's summary. I had 20/20 vision. I could read all the lines on the chart and I often challenged the family to read small signs before I could. I...
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