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We turn today to a question that for ages has occupied far wiser women and men than Jeff and myself, “Is there a connection between traditional French cooking and advanced sexagenarian friskiness?”
If the answer is yes, what is it? And even if the answer is no, why has the question troubled smart people for so [...]

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If Jeff and I have learned anything prancing merrily along the road to our present blissful state of frisky “sexagenarianism” it is stick with the things that work.
But before I get to this column’s main meat and potatoes let me say why this so-evocative word is in quotes (“inverted commas” in good old-fashioned British English.) [...]

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In a speech last week the biggest of all bosses of the giant Microsoft company said, “In the next 10 years, computers as flexible as a sheet of paper will replace notepads and newspapers, while others will be able to intuit what you’re trying to find online.”
Of course you’d expect him to say that – [...]

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Long ago and far away – Judy and I were mere infants – a book titled “The Power of Positive Thinking” by Norman Vincent Peale topped the New York Times best seller list.
“For 186 consecutive weeks” – according to the publisher – “and translated into fifteen languages with more than 7 million copies sold” it [...]

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Writing this weekly column about sexagenarian friskiness Jeff and I have to be constantly on our toes answering tricky questions from people who know we’re the perpetrators thereof.
One of the problems however is to not get too involved in deep psychological ramifications. We have our firm opinions and greatly enjoy writing about them but never [...]

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In today’s fast-paced, wall-to-wall, 24/7, “streaming information” age there’s no way to avoid being bombarded by however well-intentioned “self-help” advice.
How to eliminate e-mail spam or where to guarantee window seats on airlines. From colouring hair with biodegradable crushed Amazonian tree bark essence to keeping your car – or was it your cat? – smelling [...]

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Travelling is fun but homecoming is better. Strict grammarians might quibble at this sentence but I can’t think of a shorter, more compelling way to describe my thoughts as our Boeing came to a halt on the tarmac and the staff opened the cabin doors to let in fresh tropical island paradise air after an [...]

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Voluntarily self-exiled and living year-round on our peaceful tropical paradise island most contentedly – thank you very much – Jeff and I nonetheless imagine we know what´s going-on in the “real” world.
With so much fast-breaking news arriving 24/7 via the Internet and satellite TV we´re probably better informed today than all the kings, queens, presidents, [...]

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Often in harmless everyday conversation we hear the cliché, “You know you’ve made it…when…” Followed by “…when…you’ve paid the last installment on your mortgage.” Or, more unlikely, but highly appealing nonetheless, “…when…your boss tells you he’s retiring and giving you his firm as a going-away present.” Of course, there are zillions of other ways to [...]

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The news can’t have reached President Nicolas Sarkozy yet but Jeff and I are currently in frisky mode helping France retain its position as the world’s most visited country.
The World Tourism Organisation – and who knows better – says France registered 81.9 million visitors in 2007 with Spain – a distant second – claiming 59.2 [...]

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