Category Archives: Exercise

Creative You!

Posted on December 15, 2014 by @jamieweil

The right brain has long been credited with creativity. We are all born with this part working like crazy. This part knows how to play with inhibition. It imagines. It dreams. It enjoys creating for the sake of creating. As … Continue reading →

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Rafting Life’s River

Posted on September 15, 2014 by @jamieweil

Comparing life to a river is a worn out cliche, I know. But on this day, the day following my oldest son’s 27th birthday and just a few days before my youngest son’s 16th, I can’t think of a better symbol … Continue reading →

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Attitudes toward Exercise: Are they Weight Relative?

Posted on May 19, 2014 by @jamieweil

In a January 8, 2014 article in the New York Times, reporter Gretchen Reynolds weighed in on a study which looked at overweight woman vs. lean women and their respective attitudes toward exercise. Admittedly, the study didn’t use a very big sample–just … Continue reading →

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Water Baby

Posted on May 12, 2014 by @jamieweil

I spent the greater part of my first three years out back in our above ground pool swimming from sun up to well past sun down. I was pretty sure I was a mermaid, misplaced here on earth. Clerical error or … Continue reading →

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The Perfect Moment is a Choice

Posted on December 9, 2013 by @jamieweil

What I’d planned on doing this weekend was a number of items on The List, including writing my three blogs. Instead, I ended up traipsing the Shasta-Trinity National Forest in search of the perfect tree. We usually cut in Lassen. … Continue reading →

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Thanks!

Posted on November 25, 2013 by @jamieweil

I think of things I’m thankful for every day. This week I share them with you–the little, the big, the in-between. Here’s the tip of my random list of gratitude which grows longer each day. I am thankful for… 1. … Continue reading →

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Can Happiness be Learned?

Posted on November 11, 2013 by @jamieweil

At a party recently, I was observing teens from around the world. I know that teens are not really the group we would point to as supremely happy, but one young man in particular stood out as particularly upbeat. I … Continue reading →

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Finishing Line Gorilla: The Walk, Part 2

Posted on October 7, 2013 by @jamieweil

Doesn’t he just make you smile, this one? This is the Finishing Line Gorilla which I was really happy to see after going 42 miles in two days, which was really supposed to be 39 miles, except I kind of … Continue reading →

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Gym Freaks

Posted on September 23, 2013 by @jamieweil

I don’t know what the heck was going on this week, but my gym freak magnet was out-of-control powerful. You know, what I’m talking about, right? You’ll just be standing at the counter minding your own business, blowdrying your hair … Continue reading →

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Vaccinate with a Shot of Community

Posted on August 12, 2013 by @jamieweil

Stamatis Moraitis, a Greek war veteran, came to the US in 1943 to seek treatment for a war injury. He ended up staying and got a job as a manual laborer. He married a Greek-American wife and they had 3 … Continue reading →

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