Embracing Seventy and My Chart | Healthy Aging Series: S12 E26
Forty people plus one. That’s how many took care of me this past week. Let me rewind 10 days. Monday, June 8 My wife and I were doing our regular after-dinner walk. You know, to help regulate our blood glucose. We walk three loops in our neighborhood, which is about a mile and a half....
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Embracing Seventy | Healthy Aging Series: S12 E25
“I wouldn’t want to be any other age than I am right now!” That’s what my mother said when she turned Seventy. I echo that. It really doesn’t seem that old to me, now. My Garmin watch says that my fitness age is 59.5 years old, but regardless I’m 70 and I’m learning to embrace...
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35 Million | Healthy Aging Series: S12 E24
I walked 3.5 million steps during the past 12 months. The most steps in one day: 31,240. The most in one week: 113,443. The most in one month: 426,784. The longest streak of 10,000+ days: 16. The last three records were from September 2025. I walk a lot. I’m writing this episode at the Muhammad...
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God. Country. Money. | Healthy Aging Series: S12 E23
I was a Smartass in High School. My dearest friends today would probably say that I’m still a Smartass. I could cite several incidents in high school that prove my point, but the first one that comes to my mind involves Mr. Augsburger, my Senior Physics teacher. Boonville High School was a small, rural High...
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A Nation in Mourning | Healthy Aging Series: S12 E22
My grandfather died when I was 13 years old. He was the first person that I knew to died. He was born in 1898 and died at the age of 69. The death certificate stated that cause of death was my grandmother (JK). In fairness, Grandpa wasn’t an easy person to live with. In a...
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Life Without God | Healthy Aging Series: S12 E21
Religion can bring out the best in people and the worst in people. My two grandmothers spent most of their lives proving this point to me. Ida Louise and Lulu. One was a Catholic and the other was a Pentecostal. My father, like his father, had little interest in Pentecostalism and because he wanted to...
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