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23 Jul 2024 8 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
I know I have been among the missing in this blogosphere in the last month or so. Occupational hazard of being back up in Northern New England at our summer camp and being busy. The weather up here was unseasonably warm in June, mid-eighties and very...
4 Jun 2024 1 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
I have not dropped off the face of the earth. I just got back from a three-week bicycle tour in Europe. We rode our tandem recumbent bicycle from Prague, Czechia to Budapest, Hungary over 17 riding days, covering about 600 miles and riding through f...
7 May 2024 3 minute read 2 comments 7th Decade Redhead
It's travel days and we are off for our amazing bike tour in Europe. We left the house way too early in the morning only because of all the flooding that has happened in our area and we had an hour and a half drive to the airport. We did not encount...
5 May 2024 2 minute read 1 comment 7th Decade Redhead
It's T-minus one day until we head out on another cycling adventure of a lifetime. We are flying to Europe and then we will be visiting five countries over the course of the next three weeks on a bicycle built for two. We are flying our nine-foot-lon...
26 Apr 2024 5 minute read 2 comments 7th Decade Redhead
This past weekend I had the opportunity to visit my son and his family. He has two daughters, who are three years old and five years old. They are joyful, fun-loving, energetic and very tiring kids (in a good way), and we love them to death. The olde...
18 Apr 2024 8 minute read 3 comments 7th Decade Redhead
In the early days of our relationship, my husband used to say, "I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken." After 40 years of togetherness, I don't hear him say that anymore. Why? Because he's old enough and wise enough to realize that if you a...
13 Apr 2024 4 minute read 1 comment 7th Decade Redhead
I've mentioned before that I can easily get sucked into the world of Facebook and Instagram reels which offer a lot of dietary information, most of which I tend to ignore because you really can't trust what people are saying when their goal is gainin...
11 Apr 2024 9 minute read 1 comment 7th Decade Redhead
There is a lot of talk on the internet about skipping breakfast, or rather having a large period of time between the previous evening's meal and the first meal the following day. Morning is my leisure time so I'm all about breakfast (and coffee). I'...
8 Apr 2024 7 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
I thought this topic was sort of a 'one and done' post but apparently the ordinary course of my life has circled me around back to it. Yes, most of us are putting off unpleasant (and sometimes even pleasant) tasks or conversations that need to happen...
4 Apr 2024 4 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
I'm back at home after a few weeks of whirlwind travel, visiting relatives. I went to visit a cousin for a few days in Florida, and a few days after I got back, my husband and I drove about eight hours to visit his cousins on the Gulf coast, cousins...
