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In This Newsletter…
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1. Quotation of the Month
2. Conversation Tip of the Month
3. Conversation Questions About Health
4. Pronounce This Word of the Month
5. April Fool’s Day Story
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1. Quotation of the Month
“Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.” – Chili Davis
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2. Conversation Tip of the Month:
When Is It OK to Ask a Woman Her Age?
Never.
Unless she’s buying beer or cigars from you.
Here’s another exception to the Don’t Ask, Never Tell rule:
Ask her virtual age. It’s the beginning of an important conversation about putting more years in your life and more life in your years.
First things first. What is someone’s “virtual age”?
It’s the combination of one’s biological age, genetics, and lifestyle choices. A nifty website figures it out for you if you answer the questions honestly—no fudging. (I’ll give you the link at the bottom.)
If you’re eating bananas and birdseed, exercising regularly, and not skydiving daily, you could knock years or even decades off your biological age.
I’m 62, but my virtual age is 45. Take that, Father Time.
A few years dropped off my life expectancy (98, yikes! too much!), because I sleep less than 6 hours a night and engage in moderately risky activities (surf’s up!) Plus I picked the wrong parents, coronarily speaking (that is, they both had heart problems).
Take the test yourself. It’s quick. The results might scare you, elate you, or make you change some habits. You may be younger, or much older, than you think!
Send this virtual age calculator to everyone you care about. And then talk, talk, talk to them about how you all can stay younger longer and continue to enjoy the pleasure of each other’s company.
Here’s the link to the virtual age calculator.
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3. Conversation Questions About Health
How old do you feel today? How do you define old? How do you determine when someone is old?
Do you plan on growing old gracefully or fighting it? What will be your weapons of choice? Are you going to have facelifts until your chin meets your eyebrows?
What one thing are you willing to change, starting now, to live longer and better? It could be anything from walking 5 more minutes a day to drinking 8 glasses of water daily. You know what to do. What lifestyle change are you willing to commit yourself to doing as though your life depended on it?
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4. Pronounce this Word of the Week: colonel
Although colonel is an easy one for most adult English speakers, phonetically, it’s the pits. According to Romalda Spalding, author of The Writing Road to Reading, it’s the toughest English word to sound out. How do you get KER-n’l out of a word that starts like colony? That’s just the way it is.
Now go quiz your friends: “What’s the toughest English word to pronounce just by looking at it?”
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5. April Fool’s Day Story
April 1, 1946, Lanikai, Hawaii
Janie Powlison was doing the dishes at Hilltop House, looking out on Kailua Bay. She’d never seen the tide so low. All the water was gone, and the coral heads were showing. “Dad! Something is happening to Kailua Bay!” Her father, Skipper, looked and said, “I’ve never seen a tidal wave, but I think we’re going to have one.”
Skipper called several Honolulu radio stations who all told him the same thing: “April Fool’s!” They didn’t believe him and didn’t warn their listeners. By the end of the day, nine walls of water had washed in and out, carrying pianos, fish, trash, houses, and cars. It was the day that Mother Nature fooled everyone.
