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What Is Your Favorite Form of Exercise?
April 15, 2024 -- Sitting is the New Smoking. Have you heard that one? Nothing seems truer these days, as more and more experts (like Dr. Sanjay Ghupta) say that physical activity is the number one prescription for staving off aging. Not to mention the health benefits of regular exercise in keeping off those extra pounds and preventing every manner…...
Top Retirement Towns
Spring Hill Florida is one of the northernmost retirement communities on Florida’s (west) Gulf Coast. If you drive between Tallahassee (on the inside of Florida’s elbow) down the coast toward Tampa you will be struck by how empty the landscape is for almost 100 miles. Development starts just above Spring Hill; bulldozers relentlessly churn further north from here every day.…...
Womelsdorf is a very small but relatively affluent town west of Reading, Pennsylvania (in eastern PA). It is home to the Conrad Weiser Homestead, who was important in the settlement of colonial Pennsylvania. Picture of historic house in Womelsdorf and picture of Conrad Weiser Homestead courtesy of Wikipedia and Smallbones (public domain)....
Forked River is a small town of about 5400 along the New Jersey shore, just south of Toms River. Forked is pronounced in 2 syllables - "For' ked"....
Fairhope, Alabama is one of the most unusual (and nicest) retirement communities anywhere. It was founded by 28 settlers from Iowa in November, 1894 as a utopian single tax colony by the "Fairhope Industrial Association". Their purpose in founding a new colony was to establish and conduct a cooperative model community, free from all forms of private monopoly. The Fairhope…...