Month: September 2012

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Fighting the Clock

I remember a commercial for something like hair color where the model says something to the effect of, “I don’t intend to age gracefully. I intend to fight it every step of the way!”

I feel that way, too, and one thing I’ve noticed lately is that my skin needs a little extra attention. I’ve never been one for laying out in the sun and getting a deep tan, so I think I have an advantage over some of the other women my age. But I want to fight the wrinkles and age spots if I can find the products to help me.

From reading online about anti-aging treatments, it seems that there are two key ingredients to keeping youthful skin. One is collagen and the other is elastin. I’m going to start looking into this and start trying harder to keep my skin as healthy as I can for as long as I can. It’s the only skin I will ever have.

 

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A Book Village

book village

At first glance this may look like a few books on a bookshelf. But when you look closer you will see that someone has added doors, windows and signs on the books, making it look more like the main street in a tiny village. Wouldn’t that be cool to find a town that actually made all the buildings look like books? I think that would be a fabulous tourist attraction and it would be great to be promoting reading and books.

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Instant Access to Information

This morning I realized that we have all accepted and integrated the internet into our daily lives. We use it for all kinds of things and all the information is available to us instantly, at the touch of a few keyboard keys or mouse clicks.

Lately I have been using Wikipedia to research a lot of different subjects. I like the way it has cross references and a bibliography at the end of each article. Although a lot of people have been bashing the site and saying it is full of inaccuracies, that has not been my experience. I love the site and the enormous number of subjects that it covers in depth.

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Long Weekend – Sad Weekend

As much as I love three day weekends, this Labor Day weekend always makes me sad. Around here, Labor Day weekend means the last weekend of summer. All the swimming pools will be closed for the season after Monday, and all the schools will be back in session for the new school year by Tuesday, too.

I had a nice summer but it was so extra hot that I did not get outside to do as much as I would have liked. I would rather be hot in the summertime than cold in the winder time, but too hot is not fun.