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Weight a Minute!

I was planning to write something controversial for my next post.  Everybody loves the drama, right?  How’s this for drama? I hit my goal!  Woohoo!  I started January fourth with the goal to lose 10% body weight which was 267 lbs.  Do the math…I was 239.7 yesterday morning.  I haven’t weighed this little since…well since I can remember. When I

Walking to Victory Drive

I started walking several months ago for health reasons.  January fourth…it was a Monday.  Apparently, my cholesterol was getting high despite the increase in statins my doctor had prescribed.  It had been good for many years with help from statins, but over the last 6 months or so, it reached into the concerning range.  Plus, my A1C (blood sugar average)

Intro – Words and Cave Paintings

Since the first neanderthal painted water buffalos on his cave walls with their little stick-figure hunters wielding long spears, we’ve been using symbols to convey ideas to others.  Sure, we came up with auditory symbols to do the same, but written symbols transfer information over thousands of years.  We knew cavemen hunted buffalo long before someone did an autopsy on