By Jim Poling. Sr. It’s time to hike out to the shed and fetch the artificial Christmas tree.It is not a huge task. Wrestle the box off the top shelf, pull out the three tree…
Comfort Zone Part 3 – Nutrition
By Laurie Sweig This week’s truth is: You are what you eat. That goes along with the statement “garbage in, garbage out.” I apologize for being harsh but the facts are the facts. Our bodies…
Canada’s lost humanity
By Jim Poling Sr. One delight of living in Vancouver many years ago was dinner at the On On restaurant in Chinatown.The food was fabulous and plentiful, and sometimes we walked it off with a…
Comfort Zone Part 2 – Movement (and pushing…
By Laurie Sweig Here’s a truth for you: Any movement that you are not doing now you will not be able to do in the future. One example is getting down to the floor and…
Size doesn’t matter
By Jim Poling Sr. The next time someone calls you a bird brain, take it as a compliment. That’s become a cliché as scientists discover more evidence that birds are smarter than we believe.Birds do…
Comfort zone
By Laurie Sweig The term comfort zone is used quite a bit these days. One definition I found for it is: A place or situation where one feels safe or at ease and without stress.…
America and The Old Man and the Sea
By Jim Poling Sr. My fingers caress a well-aged copy of the novel The Old Man and the Sea. I thumb to the first page.“He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff…
Laughter in the gloom
By Jim Poling Sr. Late autumn can be a depressing time. Early November sunshine and warmth give way to cloud and cold. It’s a down time waiting for good things to begin – things like…
Burpees – revisted
By Laurie Sweig I have written about burpees in the past. They still are not a favourite exercise for anyone that I work with. I’m hoping that by changing the way they are done, an…
A sad loss of trust
By Jim Poling Sr. It seems that you can’t trust anyone or anything these days. And, that has become a serious, but much overlooked problem for our so-called civilized society.A recent Pew Research Centre survey…
Improve your balance
By Laurie Sweig It’s getting cold outside. That means snow and ice are a reality in the not too distant future. Now is a great time to take your balance to the next level. It…
Control
By Laurie Sweig One definition of the word control is “to have power over.” Here’s a little secret for you … as living beings on this planet we have very little control over anything. That…
Worry over Frost Centre lands
By Jim Poling Sr. It’s official. The “For Sale” sign is up at the Frost Centre on Highway 35 just south of Dorset.Workers were out early last Saturday morning assembling a huge sign offering the…
Vitamin N
By Laurie Sweig Last week I had the privilege of attending the grand opening of the Barnum Creek Nature Reserve in the Haliburton area. This 500 acres of land was donated to the Haliburton Highlands…
When the red, red robin . ..
By Jim Poling Sr. Now you see them, now you don’t.The robins were everywhere until recently. Listening and pecking for worms beside the house. Flitting branch to branch back in the woods as they searched…
Setting a better example
By Jim Poling Sr. Young people are getting much of the blame for the soaring number of infections in what is being called the second wave of COVID-19.You know, the private house parties, those crazy…
Healthspan
By Laurie Sweig The term “healthspan” has been popping up frequently in the last while. I looked up the definition and it is “The part of a person’s life during which they are generally in…
October, a bad news month
By Jim Poling Sr. Welcome to October, a nice month with a reputation for pre-winter fun gatherings, fall beauty and OK weather.This October is different. Octoberfests are out. Crowded Thanksgiving dinners are not recommended. Halloween…
Take a breath
By Laurie Sweig I had a client who was a radiologist. During one of our strength training workouts I was coaching him on breathing. The optimum way to breathe when lifting weights is to exhale…
The arch of the foot
By Laurie Sweig As far as anatomy goes, the arch in our foot is not a body part. The arch is created when the muscles and bones in the foot are working well. It’s the…
Making earth great again
By Jim Poling Sr. The egg shells were the final insult.I awoke early today and rushed to the bedroom window, anxious to look out and spot any signs of fresh activity in the nightly war…