Opinion

I’ve figured out that the best way to handle it is to laugh back. I’m referring to premature senility from which I must be entering. I’m surely not old enough for the real thing! But why else would I be having so many problems with the washing machine?

Hello everyone! Hope all is well and everyone is keeping up with the good hand washing techniques. It’s been crazy out in the world lately. Who would ever manage things like toilet paper flying off the shelf because of a virus? I had to get out and see

As a County Extension Agent, I have been teaching health and fitness classes for over fifteen years. Extension’s recommendations for everything from nutrition to financial management are based on the latest research and evidence of what works. Since 2008 when the first Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans was published, I taught participants to shoot for a minimum of 150 minutes a week of moderate intensity exercise for basic fitness. That comes out to 30 minutes a day on most days of the week. That was also my personal guideline. However, I found it difficult to keep up the 30 minutes on most days of the week habit. I gave myself excuses from weather to a runny nose to not having a good location to exercise. I tended not to exercise at all if I could not get the whole 30 minutes at one time.