Active Lifestyle

Keep Fitness in Mind through the Holidays

Regardless of your beliefs and traditions, you’re likely to run into a Santa Claus or two during the holidays. You’re also likely to encounter two other visitors during the upcoming…

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Reduce Stress This Holiday Season with These Helpful Tips

If you want to avoid crowded highways and airports, just don’t travel between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day. But you want to celebrate holidays with out-of-town loved ones with skiing…

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Dance Your Way to Better Physical and Mental Health

“Let’s Dance” sounds like fun. “Let’s Exercise” sounds like work. Dancing, though, can give you many of the physical and mental benefits associated with an exercise program.

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Why an RV Could be the Best Option for Your Next Adventure

One hot summer day in the 1980s, a Cincinnati Post editor sent a photographer and myself to cover a Recreational Vehicle convention in Lexington, where it was even hotter. Dozens…

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Start a New Chapter: Benefits of Book Clubs

Like books, book clubs come in a wide range of shapes and sizes, too. There is fiction and nonfiction, of course, but there are book clubs devoted to memoirs and…

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Exercising with Your Younger Friends

Ask your favorite young friend to “exercise” with you, and you’ll likely be heading out the door alone. But what about an invitation to walk, bike, hike, swim or golf…

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Must Know Tips When Traveling Abroad

Is a trip to Canada, Mexico or another foreign country in your upcoming travel plans? Well, before you get lost searching websites, reading guide books and watching Rick Steves videos,…

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iPhone Tips and Tricks

Do you have a smartphone? Maybe you’re even reading this blog on one. According to the Pew Research Center, 68% of Americans have smartphones, and 45% have tablet computers. The…

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A Vacation for All Ages

Going on a cruise was never on our radar screen. We love sailing on Lake Erie in our 27-foot sloop, Carina, and when weather or schedules interfere, we like to…

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