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What I learned from my adventures as an accidental gardener
My love affair with gardening started by accident. It began with a handful of papaya seeds which I threw into a pot of pomelo in the middle of the hard lockdown. As a hypertensive patient, papaya is one of the fruits I eat with regularity and I thought nothing of throwing seeds onto soil. A…
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How 50-somethings should be taking care of their skin
Scrolling through Instagram, I chanced upon a no filter photo of Paulina Porizkova; she of the breathtaking cover of a 1985 issue of Sports Illustrated. It was refreshing to see a public personality with her face so naked, lines, wrinkles, and all. Realizing that she was all of 56 years, however, I quickly went into…
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Why this 50-something took up tai-chi
I’ve always been a busybody. I have never been content unless I’m doing a couple of things at the same time. Of course, this type of thinking was bound to kick my ass, at one point or another, and it finally did, two years ago. A hypertensive episode left me reeling from vertigo for a…
