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Continue reading →: Hand-Written Card Messages are Wonderful!I’d like to address communicating, and how we communicate! My family exchanges cards on Mother’s Day. I have 2 children, 2 children-in-law, and 5 grandchildren. I received many wonderful cards from them. Several were totally homemade (from grandchildren), the others store-bought, but all had hand-written card messages to me about…
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Continue reading →: Be Optimistic! You’ll Live Longer!There are many articles about the benefits of being an optimistic person to both your mental and physical health https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2894461/. In fact, “thinking positively” to stay healthy and live longer was one of “The 7 Keys to Living Longer and Healthier,” according to a recent article in The New York…
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Continue reading →: Tight Spaces in NYC ApartmentsMine is an old “pre-war” building in New York, without a gym in the building. So finding spaces in the NYC apartments that accommodate exercises, which we all need to do, especially as we get older, is always interesting. Here’s this advisory from the NIH! https://www.nia.nih.gov/exercise-toolkit I’ve picked a kitchen…
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Continue reading →: Disconnect From Your Phone (please)I’m continually amazed how more of my fellow New Yorkers don’t get mowed down by vehicles or bikes, or fall into open cellar grates. Their eyes are on their phone screens and their ears are listening to music, podcasts or whatever– not to traffic. Clearly, this isn’t a recipe for…
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Continue reading →: Where Did All the Signs Go?There are still a few signs on NYC streets (One Way, for instance, is still there, thank goodness). But other signs (such as those with a speed limit, or advisory about watching for pedestrians) are gone. I recently called the NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) and spoke to someone in…
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Continue reading →: “What Did You Say Again?”NYC is just a loud place to live. What with sirens, subways, pile drivers and cars without mufflers, the ambient noise level here is just plain high. Then there are the experiences for which we pay good money but which have incredibly high noise levels associated with them. They include…
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I’m Amy
I live in Manhattan and get much of my exercise dodging vehicles and bicycles on the Upper West Side. That aside, I think New York City, with its incredible diversity of people and cultural offerings, is the best place on the planet to age happily.
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