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An article in the April/May 2013 issue of AARP Magazine (yes, I am old enough to be a card carrying member of AARP) talks about “Superfoods that Power You Up” and why they contribute to health and slow the processes of aging. Here is a list of the “longevity” foods: Coffee Thyme Wild Salmon Kale […]
About a month ago I discovered the 5:2 diet — 5 days per week eating normally (following my LoseIt plan), and on any two non-consecutive days of my choosing I “fast.” Fasting in this case does not mean eating nothing. Because I’m a guy, I can eat 600 calories. (For women, it’s 500 calories.) After […]
Twitter this year teamed up with Vizify to produce summaries of anyone’s Twitter feed from 2012, distilling it down to the top ten words. Here’s mine. Nothing too surprising — these are The Bear’s top ten words, with “World” leading the pack by a wide margin. (Click on the chart to read the list.) I […]
For the vast majority of Americans, their earning and purchasing power is steadily eroding, and the American Dream that drove our nation’s growth for more than a century is becoming little more than a pipe dream. Why is this happening? Former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich has an answer. On this Labor Day weekend, […]
So here’s the weird thing. When we all (about a dozen of us) went into the large department store, first thing we did was climb up to a second level high up on the walls, and began inching our way along a narrow ledge walled with cabinets. Someone up ahead was giving us a tour […]
Back in late January I received a nomination from Patrick Griffin, of patrickgriffinonline.com, to participate in a challenge; to produce a blog post containing seven selected links from my Tame Bear Weblog. Well I finally quit procrastinating and got it done, so I can take this off my whiteboard. THE GOAL To unite bloggers (from all […]
Hey, I like to think my own success was based on one thing only — my remarkable congeniality, or what might these days be called “social friendliness.” I type fast and I like to chat. But I have to admit I had an ace in my back pocket — that grand-daddy of social traffic web […]
Sometimes clarity comes at the most inopportune moments. Listen to a brief heartfelt story from just about six years ago… Tame Bear presents an original audio podcast from 2006: Calamity On Our House Play It Now This I know, that just as the reflections fade on water with the setting sun, so there will […]
