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348 days ago
Youthfulness a costly American obsession Celebration of looking younger has exploded in last 10 years, experts say (AP) Associated Press updated 2:43 p.m. ET, Sun., Dec. 7, 2008 LAS VEGAS - It's one of those photos that make you do a double-take. Dr. Jeffry Life stands in jeans, his shirt off. His face is that of a distinguished-looking grandpa; his head is balding, and what hair there is is white. But his 69-year-old body looks like it belongs to a muscle-bound 30-year-old. The photo regularly runs in ads for the Cenegenics Medical Institute, a Las Vegas-based clinic that specializes in "age management," a growing field in a society obsessed with staying young. Life, who swears that's his real last name, also keeps a framed copy of the photo on his office wall at Cenegenics. "He's the man!" patient Ed Detwiler says teasingly, pointing to the photo of the doctor who, in many ways, has become his role model. Detwiler, 47, has been Life's ...
349 days ago
Let Your Heart Break By Geneen Roth Add page to favorites When you accept that hurting and healing are part of living, you can give up the fantasy that being thin controls your happiness, and your resilient heart will enable you to love the life you have right now. His name was David, and I was crazy in love with him. The way his shiny dark hair curled around his collar, and how his long fingers waved oh so eloquently in the air as he talked. Every breath he took, every word he uttered seemed as if it was designed to crack my heart open. I wanted to spend my life with him, grow old with him, have more children than Angelina Jolie with him. The only teensy problem was that he didn't feel the same way about me. "I'm not attracted to you," he said. "It's not the same for me as it is for you!" he exclaimed. Picky, picky, picky, I thought. I was certain I could persuade him to love me, that he wasn't seeing clearly, that it was my job to show ...
418 days ago
The War Is Always In US Oliver Stone's message in all his movies is best reflected in the ending scene of the movie "Platoon". The war was never in Vietnam [or any physical battlefield]. It was in us and will always be in us. He was talking about the battle between the light and the darkness. I've come to finally emotionally and intellectually understand this, when it comes to letting go of what was lost, who we've lost. The past is unchangeable, but we continue to relive it and to re-think or argue on why it could have been different. Yet, it's all in the past. The dead don't come back in this life. Those who left us do not return in almost every case, especially with the passage of time. Past lives are gone. All there is for us is the future. Maybe it will lead back to our old lives or lovers, but maybe it won't. The point is the past is over, whatever hope we have and wherever we end up, and whoever we end up with (or alone) can only be found by going into the ...
1003 days ago
Love Is A Battlefield Feb 22, 2007 10:46 pm 29 Views "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt We don't all start in the same place. Some have better genetics, some are gifted with higher IQ's, better opportunities, better family backgrounds, better economic wealth, and so forth. However, the wise know this. When we were born, the world awaited each of us with its' difficulties and opportunities. It is our actions and where they lead that matter in this world...not our excuses of where we started or how little we had. There is always someone with less that did more, not just in wealth/education/athletics/looks but in being a decent human being with a sense of fairness and integrity. As the French Foreign Legion are taught, you must work with what is available. The harsh world doesn't care what little you had or how weak you were....you live or you die with what you have. Excuses and the pity of ...
1085 days ago
Escape Dec 5, 2006 1:18 pm 0 Views Sitting at my desk Another city Another client Another project I stress over some work deadlines Knowing nobody will remember the report soon So much time to create a presentation So an executive can review and throw it away In less than fifteen minutes I stress over a bad real estate deal and some money lost A small loss for too many years of gains I stress over an argument with a friend When words were said And I choose to defend And a temper flared I look to escaping abroad again To friends and places a world away I think "only you can make this all go away" For just a day, a week, a moment in time Only you can make the problems in this world cease You, a place and time When the demands and pains of life are put away What a time it will be And only two weeks away.
