Comments on: New Year’s Resolutions We Can Keep

By: Maureen

Maureen — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:34:41 +0000

Hi Danny,
Yes, the article in the New York Times found a correlation in touching one’s toes and a reduced risk of heart attack. They believe a flexible body leads to flexible arteries and less resistance in moving the blood around. Keep stretching!

By: Danny

Danny — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:14:00 +0000

I wonder about the touching the toes thing. Elderly people who are unable to do so might be at elevated risk for a heart attack (you mentioned this earlier) but that doesn’t mean that working to get better at it will improve cardiac health. That would require demonstrating that cardiac incidents actually go down in people who practice touching their toes and get better at it. If there is such research I’ll be the first in line!

By: Maureen

Maureen — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:07:14 +0000

Happy New Year Don. Yes, do not give up any food while you are eating it. It is considered bad form.
Fewer bottles of water will help save the environment. And our wallets. Why spend a dollar for something that comes out of the tap for free? Especially since it’s been proven bottled water is just tap water from some other place. Just a big tap. Thanks for checking in. Wishing you all good things in 2010…M.

By: Don

Don — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:26:26 +0000

Maureen-
I’m always late doing the resolution thing…I guess I don’t want to think about giving up food while I’m still eating it! But the weekend is almost over and it’s time, back to reality. Resolutions….yours are just fine. Very reasonable…and practical…and most of all, meaningful.

Diet, exercise, love, helping others, smiles and sunshine…anything I would add would just be a variation on one of these. How bottled water snuck in there, I dunno…it is kinda health related I guess, and a money saver for sure. As for the $3 coffee, I’ll just keep doing Panera for 2/3 the price and throw in an oatmeal raisin cookie now and then.

I do wish you a very happy and healthy 2010.
Don

By: Maureen

Maureen — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:11:42 +0000

Denny, HaHaHaHa. Love it. I’m with you on that one.

By: Denny

Denny — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:31:21 +0000

Happy New Year from The Swamp, I read last night that wine was bad for your health, so I made a New Years promise to quit reading this year!

By: Maureen

Maureen — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:47:45 +0000

Cherie I so appreciate your thoughts. I think you are onto something. A friendly greeting makes an enormous difference in our interactions with others. I hope you have a Happy New Year as well. Best. M.

By: cherie

cherie — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:23:35 +0000

Your whole list sounds totally do-able- Thank you for giving us someting to think about. I have had personal experience with #6- For the past year or so I have made a special point of saying “good morning” or “good afternoon” as I pass people in a store or on the street. The response varies from total surprise and loss for words to a smiling response, even from the most sourest o f faces. I find myself feeling better and I think the recipient feels better, too. Sometimes just a little positive recognition can improve a person’s outlook on the day or for a little while at least.
Here’s wishing a safe and happy New Year for you and your family.

By: Maureen

Maureen — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:55:02 +0000

Cathy this is so sweet! Your affection for your husband and the appreciation the “friendly” gene got passed to your son is dear. I hope to run into all of you one of these days at the grocery store, or wherever. Happy New Year.

By: Maureen

Maureen — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:50:56 +0000

Yes Delphine, life in France with a handsome and kind husband who cooks must be very, very difficult. lol. Happy New Year! Note to Blog readers: Delphine is my beloved former Au Pair from Nantes, France, who spent one year with our family in Syracuse in the early 1990s when she was 18. She now has an exquisite family of her own and we try to see each other every few years. Gros besous (big kisses) Delphine!