First thing this month, I have to apologize to Dan Oleksak, who was the fitness expert for Prime’s Three Big Questions column on making exercise a habit at any age in the January edition.
Somehow, I picked up the wrong phone number for his fitness studio, and the contact information for his gym and the senior fitness program he offers at the end of that article, was incorrect.
I’m sorry Dan, that was totally on me.
If you are interested in getting in touch with Dan about a fitness program, or to see if there are opening in his Friday morning senior fitness class, please contact him at 413-454-2729.
If you missed Dan’s excellent advice, you can find the column online at https://www.primeontheweb.com/primehealth/3-big-questions-daniel-oleksak/
February is traditionally the month when we think about love and relationships, but the last two years have made both concepts difficult for many. So instead of taking a look at romantic love, I decided to take a different tact for this edition.
I took a look at volunteering - which in and of itself is a kind of love, this one of your fellow man and your community.
I’ve volunteered for numerous things throughout my life - I taught church school at one point, helped my mother with my sister’s Brownie troop back in the day, was a middle school field trip chaperon (that was an experience!), kept the meeting notes for my son’s booster club when he was a competitive gymnast, and have worked on fundraiser events, church fairs, and many other things.
In each case I got more out of the experience than I put in – from new skills to new friends to, in the case of the gymnastic booster club, a new appreciation for what it takes to keep an all-volunteer organization viable and functioning.
If you’ve been thinking about sharing your time and talent when the pandemic lets life return to a bit more normalcy, I hope you find inspiration in this month’s feature story.
For some, February may also trigger feelings of grief surrounding the loss of a loved one - be it a partner, spouse, child or dear friend. In this month’s Three Big Questions I talk with author Karen Johnson, who lost her son to a drug overdose when he was 27. She talks about using the power of grief to help forge a new path in life, and gives advice and an example from her book, “Living Grieving: Using Energy Medicine to Alchemize Grief and Loss.” I hope, if you are grieving, that you find this is helpful.
As always, thanks for reading,
