During the work day, go for a brisk four-minute walk down the hall or up a few flights of stairs. On the weekend, grab the mop or vacuum, go to Spotify and choose a “workout” playlist (under “Browse”), and clean to the beat. Or, while brushing and flossing your teeth, do ...
unwounded innocence of the three-year-old. Some of us, as Gaiman suggests, are lucky enough to maintain creative outlets into our grown-up years. But even for us, the more we grow up, the more energy we end up devoting to all the stuff we’re silently and often...
What I do (and it works most of the times with no struggle at all) is asking her if she´ll like to walk to the bathroom or if she´ll like me to carry her? Sometimes she´ll walk other times she´ll start running so I chase her, and when I pick her up she´ll ...
First, work out exactly what you want to do. Don't be wishy-washy or vague. If you say "I want to be more active", it is difficult to know what you really mean, and you won't know when you actually achieve it. Will you take the stairs instead of the lift at work? Join a g...
This past weekend we completed the landing. The landing needs to be complete and decked so that the upper set of stairs (the big ones) will have some place to rest on – and be fastened to. We can see the end coming – definitely looking forward to having my weekends back, and not ...
There are several adjustments you can make around your home to accommodate your pet’s specific needs, especially as they get older, so here are just a few: Firstly, consider creating single-level living spaces. This reduces the need for your pets to climb stairs which can be strenuous espec...
Charlotte is one of my closest friends, and she did everything she could to make it work. She chose a restaurant that had food I could eat. She called ahead and asked about stairs and elevators. She figured out which of the options had the shortest possible distance between where she cou...
He has taken his bottle today and slept OK from 2am and all morning been ok but then 4pm rolls around again and settled for 30 mins then woke up crying. I've taken him for walk in carrier though my back is broken but it started to rain so had to come back. He sleeps in his ca...
Among the volunteers is an ex-soldier named Tony, who served in Northern Ireland in the 1970s and had become so emaciated drinking three to four bottles of white wine a day that he could barely walk up the stairs when he was admitted on his 60th birthday. Cleaners later removed 130 empty...