Kids do it naturally—just look at any playground! They run, jump and most of all have great balance. So why as seniors do we forget what came so effortlessly...

It is a curious phenomenon within our medical care and insurance industry that preventive, proactive care is generally not reimbursed. If you get sick, you h...

Life is difficult and stressful, yet simultaneously can be both meditative and instructional. Age old disciplines like Yoga and Tai Chi emphasize the tremend...

We are made of memories. Like a high-rise building, our memories are the floors upon which we are structured. From our earliest years, we store stimuli and e...

As a child, I recall vividly our family’s move from an apartment in Rego Park to a housing development on Long Island. This was in the early 1950’s, a time w...

I saw The Wizard of Oz starring Judy Garland this past week and was again impressed with the majesty of the film. The characters symbolize all the human emot...

Willie Nelson, that icon of the country-western ballad, sings a song that resonates with affection, pride and wonder. “My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys” is...

There is an instinct that animals exhibit which allows them to survive. In fact, they remain healthy, alert and agile because they adhere to this simple inst...

To arduously push a heavy rock up a hill, only to have it roll back down, and then have to start again is an ironic parody to an exercise routine. Just ask S...

Stephen Crane, who authored “The Red Badge of Courage”, also wrote this succinct poem in 1905: I saw a man pursuing the horizon; Round and round they sped. I...

There is a tidal wave that is just starting to smash upon the shores of the United States-- it is the Baby Boomers, those born during World War II and the de...

Mankind can trace its history back 10,000 years and recognize its hominid beginnings to over 2 million years ago. As individuals, however, we really only inh...

You’re late for an appointment. Actually, you had given yourself plenty of time, had laid out your clothes the previous evening, awoken, albeit complaining a...

There are times that all of us, young and senior, are simply amazed at how quickly life passes. Upon leaving our teens and entering our twenties, we are stil...

Until the middle of the 20 Century, it was believed by those who studied the human brain, that by the age of three years old, the brain was fixed and unchang...

Did you ever listen to your heart beat, heed the ticking of a clock, or watch a leaf disengage from a branch and slowly spiral to the ground? They all illust...

Published 1978 in his book The Road Less Traveled, psychiatrist F. Scott Peck immortalized the phrase “Life is difficult”. In short, he encouraged us to embr...

Although my grandfather died in 1975, I remember it as if yesterday. Sy was my mother’s father. Proud of his physique, he was a devotee of physical training ...

In 1951, Welsh poet Dylan Thomas wrote a poem for his dying father. In but a few lines and stanzas, he captures the angst, confusion and fear of those who di...

The universe is so large. Its very vastness both stuns and excites the imagination. From science fiction writers to those at NASA who study the stars, its de...