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TIME? By Cliff Eggink Time to exercise? Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You, I, and everyone that you know can find 30 minutes a day to exercise. As an example, if you watch TV, you have time to exercise. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Edison, Oprah, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Dr. Oz, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, Jane Fonda and your...

Sassy Survey of Spectacles and Scenesby t.grzenia My mother can attest to the fact that from...

What if no one were fat? Posted by Cliff & Tatjana Eggink Imagine a lean and healthy America: The savings on medical, fuel, food and other costs would be enough to give every U.S. household more than $4,000. In the United States today, 66% of adults are overweight. Almost 33% of adults are obese, and 4.7% are morbidly obese, or more than 100 pounds overweight. What if nobody in...

LOVE!by t. eggink Oh, we make so much ado about it: Platonic love, puppy love, unconditional love, maternal love, filial love, patriotic love and, of course, romantic love. And while unconditional motherly and filial love is often exulted as the premiere expression of bonded emotion and devotion, and while patriotic love is demanded of us, and while romantic love, temporarily blinded and...

IrongeezelleSays™: “Ablution confessional” By Tatjana Eggink Remember the movie, As Good As It Gets? Remember the obsessive-compulsive (OCD, in psychology speak) character, portrayed by Jack Nicholson, who washes his hands over and over with fresh soap ? Remember Howard Hughes, an over-the-top compulsive, who also began as frequent hand washer? Well, I am that type of person, too,...

Life/Death by Cliff & Tatjana EgginkThe Bucket List. From the moment we are born, we are dying. Of course, for the first few years of our life, we have zero awareness of this fact; we are not aware of much actually, but we live in a state of ignorant bliss regarding our mortality. Then, as we approach what feels like eternal adolescence, time creeps to a crawl, and it seems we can hear each...

Trick or Treat? By Tatjana “Irongeezelle” Eggink & Cliff “Irongeezer” Eggink Since October is the month of Halloween, Irongeezelle thought it might be apropos to provide a mixed bag of morsels, most tasty and most foul: News bites, sound bites, thought bites. You name it. What they have in common is that they are all non-fattening, even while some are frighteningly decadent, and...

Self Knowledge By Cliff and Tatjana Eggink With each passing decade, we hope that our knowledge of self increases, and that we know our good as well as our less admirable qualities. You know that old saying, “the unexamined life is not worth living.” This is true within reason and we are no way suggesting that you should berate yourself or ruminate about those things that are past...

“Obesity, be not proud” From the IrongeezerSays™ Series.By Tatjana and Cliff Eggink Two thirds of the American public is either overweight or obese. Adults and kids alike are gaining pounds and suffering dire, life altering, life threatening health consequences: Type II diabetes, high blood pressure, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease are among those consequences. We all...

IrongeezelleSays™ “Honestly, yummy” By Tatjana Eggink Since I was a small child, food has played a dominant part of my life. My family – parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins – would gather for lunch, the biggest meal in a European family in my youth. We ate home-made meals, cooked from scratch. We would forage in the woods for wild mushrooms in the fall and...