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22 Jan 2024 3 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
The thumbnail photo above was one my husband took of me back in 2014. I am about to attempt my first, and only, to this day, officially timed running event. It was a Color Me Rad 5K race in Houston, Texas. My friends and work colleagues talked (nagge...
20 Jan 2024 13 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
A few days ago, I was sitting here in my jammies and fuzzy socks, a usual occurrence for a cold (14F) morning in Texas. We don't get these cold snaps very often. Our town is not prepared to deal with snow and ice, so when we get them, we are told to...
17 Jan 2024 8 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
I was talking to my sister the other day, and she was reminiscing about our sibling therapy sessions last summer. The extraordinarily rainy weather last summer gave us a lot of time to sit around and talk. Many revelations came to light. There were t...
16 Jan 2024 8 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
"I wish I could more like you. You always walk with such confidence..." Huh?.... This was something that was spoken to me about 15 years ago. I never really forgot it. It Easter Sunday at a church service, back in the day when our family were regul...
15 Jan 2024 5 minute read 2 comments 7th Decade Redhead
It's been two weeks since our niece passed away and two weeks since my husband's family has had the worst day of their lives. I still feel helpless with respect to how to help my brother-in-law, sister-in-law and my nephew. Other than feed them, di...
13 Jan 2024 5 minute read 2 comments 7th Decade Redhead
Back in mid-November, I put up a post about Ozempic and other similar drugs that people have been taking for weight loss. It was an 'Ozempic for dummies" type of post (which I, myself, needed). I did some research to provide the basics of what these...
12 Jan 2024 8 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
One of the things I struggle with is thinking that my way of thinking and doing a diet, i.e. the calorie deficit diet, is the way to go for everyone. I truly believe that from a physiological standpoint, this is the best option for most people to los...
11 Jan 2024 6 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
There is no doubt in anyone's mind that three years of COVID precautions, lockdowns, and mandated whatevers caused most of our lives to detour on a side trip that interrupted the daily course of our lives. Life had changed. Even though we will never...
10 Jan 2024 4 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
This is probably an "old person" thing, but as we have aged, my husband and I have looked for things to lighten our burden, both personally and financially. Two years ago, we started the cliche retired life of spending our winters in a warm-ish plac...
9 Jan 2024 4 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
Yesterday, we hosted the first family dinner since our niece passed away New Year's Eve Day. There were eight of us, including her parents and brother. My husband and I were very tense and feeling the stress of not knowing what to expect with respect...
