Age doesn't matter.
Today, I’m doing something I never do: showing “What I Wore.” It was a very hot day, and I felt totally cool and comfortable all day in this. In fact, I was getting cold in our air-conditioned house and started looking for a jacket or warm shawl or afghan! It’s great for summer so it inspired me to talk about how to wear a tunic in the best ways. Age doesn’t matter.
Have you heard that sitting is the new smoking? Actually, it’s worse.
Age doesn’t matter. From early childhood to old age, the amount of sitting has increased as we have become a sedentary society. Not only do we sit at work all day, but we also sit in our cars as we travel from place to place, sit down for meals, and then sit down on our couch to watch television in the evenings and on weekends.
A blog article by Anytime Fitness called “Scared Sit-less“ reported that “a 2008 Vanderbilt University Study of 6,300 people published in the American Journal of Epidemiology estimated that an average American spends 58% of waking time (7.7 hours a day) in sedentary behaviors such as sitting. Dr. James Levine, director of the Mayo Clinic-Arizona State University Obesity Solutions Initiative and inventor of the treadmill desk, has found that ‘Sitting is more dangerous than smoking, kills more people than HIV, and is more treacherous than parachuting. We are sitting ourselves to death.'” Continue Reading
I met Janice in Detroit’s New Center on a workday looking glam. I discovered that she was dressed to go straight from work to a night out. I asked if I could get a photo of her and noticed the MK for Michael Kors on her tunic. So we started talking about designer clothes. Continue Reading
This is a diary of the healthy lifestyle goals that my son, Chris, and I are making together each month.
Since it takes 21-30 days to develop a new habit, making a goal for the month ahead is an effective strategy.
Chris and I agree that making these monthly goals together and posting our results here for you to see helps us to improve our health. I’ve always found that if I say out loud to someone what I plan on doing, I’m more likely to do it. Because if I said I would, I feel responsible to follow through.
Age doesn’t matter. It’s never too late. You can always make progress and actually reverse the signs of aging!
In May, my goal was to count calories (for the first time ever!) and keep them down to 1200 a day. Chris was so exhausted from insomnia and hard work that he decided to try to get enough sleep each night. Continue Reading
Over the holiday weekend, I attended the Walk Fashion Show in Detroit’s Eastern Market district. The venue was big enough to accommodate a large runway, a light-show backdrop, photography shoots, fashion and beauty vendors, food and drink stands, and the designers with plenty of front-row and close-up seating. The only thing was the acoustics; it was hard to understand what the announcer was saying.
I was most interested in the emerging designers. There was street wear and evening wear. I was not so interested in the tight, revealing, body-con outfits. And it seemed to me that was what the independent designers at the show were focused upon.
The first emerging designer in the show was Teasers Boutique (Facebook page: Teasers Boutique – Paulette). Although their club wear can really be tight and short, there were some really interesting outfits that could possibly be worn by anyone. Although they were sheer, there were only peeks of sheerness here and there with all else covered by unique design details. When you can see but not see, age doesn’t matter. Continue Reading
