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THE FOXXY MAKEOVER
Read more →Some years ago a patient called to schedule a consultation and in a few sentences she summed up what we all see at one time or another. “I went to bed thinking I looked pretty good, but when I got up this morning and looked in the mirror I said what the heck happened!? My face fell! Overnight.” Well here’s what happened: As we age, the lower jaw loses bone and the collagen in the skin becomes less effective. This results in saggy skin, nasolabial fold, marionette lines and undereye troughing. The combines to make us look drawn and...
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ETERNAL VIGILANCE
Read more →I was somewhere in my mid-30’s when I realized that I was on the wrong side of the slope. You know the slope, the one that finds you getting weaker every day. It happened while I was hefting a sail out of the forward hatch on LUCKY PUFF, my racing sailboat, and found myself huffing and puffing like an overworked fireplace bellows. “That’s it,” I thought, “I’m going to join a health club.” This was back in the day when gyms were called ‘health clubs’ and were few and far between. The only one in the Newport area was an...
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CHRISTMASTIME IN NEW COUNTRY
Moving out of your comfort zone is never easy...if you are lucky, it's worth it. Read on to find out what happened when we left our comfort zone.Read more → -
WHEN YOU LOOK IN THE MIRROR - INTRODUCTION
Read more →I promised I would post my book as it comes together. Here's the introduction. Hope you find it intriguing... INTRODUCTION When you’re about eight years old and it’s dark and you’re supposed to be asleep and some adults are whispering not very softly and not very far from your bedroom door which is closed when it never is closed there’s no way in the world that you can sleep. I did what any red-blooded American kid would do. I got out of bed using my best commando tactics and cracked the bedroom door hoping no one would notice. ...
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CELEBRATE OUR MOVE AND SAVE 10 PERCENT
Read more →One of the great myths we tell ourselves is that we are free spirits, able to cast off the bonds and constraints of community, pick up at a moment’s notice, and move. Where? It doesn’t matter. When? Now. The far horizon calls. Somehow we seem to feel as though we should be able to do it. (There’s my favorite word to avoid: “should,” but I will leave that for another blog.) It’s in our DNA, right? After all, we are descendants of immigrants who at one point, in an era before instantaneous communication, moved thousands of miles away from home,...
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CREATIVITY AND MEDICINE
Read more →“Life cannot be captured. The human heart cannot be captured. The moment of creation itself is fleeting.”Richard Gere as Parker Wilson in HACHI, A DOG’S TALE. Creativity is a process that can’t be looked at too closely; it is changed by the very act of observing. Since the publication of my novel, SPIRIT RANCH, I have discovered that working to make a face more youthful or writing a novel have more in common then might be imagined at first glance. There is a transcendent moment with both acts, a point in time where preparation, study, experience, and heart all come...