There are few scenarios as stress-producing for this septuagenarian as sitting in a doctor’s office. My…
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PUMPING IRONY: Take Two Bean Sprouts and Call Me in the Morning
Among the more popular mantras that pervaded the local food co-op movement during the mid-1970s, none…
PUMPING IRONY: Eat Less, Live Longer?
I once tracked my daily caloric intake in college for a nutrition class project, and it…
PUMPING IRONY: The Price of Prevention
There’s nothing like a global pandemic to shift an old guy’s thinking about vaccines. Before COVID…
PUMPING IRONY: Don’t Just Sit There, Do Something!
I like to think of myself as a moderately active septuagenarian. On a fairly regular basis,…
PUMPING IRONY: Forever Young?
Let’s just imagine, for the sake of argument, that you’re trudging through your late 60s, feeling…
PUMPING IRONY: A Parley With Parkinson’s
I’m reasonably confident that I don’t have Parkinson’s disease, though my old pal Leo, who does,…
PUMPING IRONY: Operating Principles
Well into her 70s, Mom was still doing some yardwork, hauling clothes down to the basement…
PUMPING IRONY: Just Business as Usual
If you harbored any doubts about the bureaucratic machinations that led to the approval of Biogen’s…
PUMPING IRONY: “Kinless” but Not Hopeless
I sometimes worry about my old pal Leo. He’s 80 years old, scuffling with Parkinson’s, and…