Of all the ways to begin a new year, fitness-wise, there is one I think deserves to be at the top of the list. It’s simple and central. And it’s […]
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BODY/MIND
How to Resolve Not to Resolve
Starting the year with a clean slate and a Mason jar
Lose weight. Get a new job. Exercise more. These goals have been on my New Year’s resolutions list over the years, and maybe yours, no? Personal development and improvement seem […]
TECHNOLOGY
Kids’ Anxiety and Smartphone Use Are ‘Skyrocketing’
Screen time rules are needed for children (and adults, too)
Sixty-nine percent of kids have their own smartphones by age 12, up from 41 percent in 2015. And on average, 8-to-12-year-olds in the U.S. consume just under five hours’ worth […]
BODY/MIND
Counter Those Holiday Jitters with a Simple, Effective Tool
You’re anxious about being able to afford gifts for everyone on your list. The company party sounds like the worst idea in the world. Someone you loved recently died and […]
LIFE & DEATH
Creating a Caring Place to Die
Lily House would offer round-the-clock care so residents won’t have to die alone
PROVINCETOWN — Ever since Dawn Walsh arrived in Provincetown she has been working to take fear and ignorance out of the experience of death. She founded the Day of the […]
MOVEMENT
How to Fit In Fitness
Fifteen minutes will elevate your mood
This is either the most wonderful time of the year or the hardest and most stressful. Either way, for most of us, it’s a time when exercise routines lag. It’s […]
BODY/MIND
Press Pause: Developing Awareness with Yoga
Interoception makes us less likely to ignore symptoms of larger problems
Ever walked out of a yoga class feeling peaceful? Even-keeled? Like you had hit the reset button? Same here. It was what first hooked me. I reluctantly walked into a […]
MOVEMENT
Overcoming the Smartphone Slump
Good posture can improve digestion, breathing, and even mood
It’s too bad so many of us are taught about good posture as merely a matter of virtue or aesthetics. Good posture is actually a matter of good health, starting […]
metaphysics
Ghost Hunters Are a Spirited Group
Cape-based paranormal detectives see their work as more science-based than sensational
Ghost hunter Joni Kosmach points a hand-held infrared camera into the shadows. Black, metallic, and blinking with strange energy, it looks like something a Navy SEAL might wield — or […]
METAPHYSICS
Persephone on the Sagamore Bridge
The sadness of leaving one set of pleasures for another
Driving west over the Sagamore Bridge in early October, heading back to Chicago, I sighed as I realized I was once again doing my biannual Persephone act. Ah, but which […]
MOVEMENT
Strength Training and the Art of Pushing the Envelope
‘No pain, no gain’ is the wrong idea
Strength training is good for you, and not just for increasing muscle mass. It increases bone density and even improves cardiovascular health. But a lot of people have trouble making […]
MOVEMENT
Balancing Act
Try this at home: Simple exercises for a steadier future
We all strive to find balance in life. In a physical sense, it’s central to everything that we do from walking to surfing and from gardening to high-intensity sports. The […]
metaphysics
Forest-Dwellers on the Outer Cape
The enchantment of living on borrowed time
TRURO — “Autumn is over the long leaves that love us,” wrote William Butler Yeats. The first harbingers of autumn are suddenly over the Outer Cape, as we see the […]
next month in review
What Tarot Foretells
The Ten of Swords loosens our logical minds
Artists, poets, therapists, fortune-tellers all understand that the urge to uncover meaning in an apparently random arrangement is an aspect of the human condition. We long for personal messages whispered […]
