Late-breaking frisky discoveries

Eagerly cranking up my brain cells preparing to write this column I was doubly motivated by a newspaper report of a study conducted recently by some university or other showing that already-frisky sexagenarians can achieve even greater friskiness if they keep their brains cranked-up at warp speed. Now I know in this fast-moving iPhone and [...]

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Assisted recall

It has finally come to pass. Our Euro 2009 trip is well underway. Judy and I are currently in central France from where I have the distinct pleasure of writing these words on a borrowed laptop. After breakfast on a sheltered veranda overlooking an estimated million or so vines as far as the eye can [...]

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Wake-up call

This is by no means a judgemental call but when speaking to youngsters (anyone under 50 by our definition) a distinct pattern emerges of chronic reluctance to rise and shine early in the morning. In my opinion perfectly understandable during life’s most intensive phase when family and jobs are more demanding than at the later [...]

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Caught in a French net

Sorry for the confusion – this is a wordle graphic using all the words in this post. Let the fun and games begin anew. Before the cock croweth thrice we’ll be back in the country where Jeff and I “found” ourselves. Forgive this pseudo-psychoanalytical term but it does fit well in today’s scheme of things. [...]

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For best results add ginger

We’re often asked, “how do you stay frisky during another tropical-island-wide power cut just as the DVD movie you rented was getting interesting, it’s already 3 days overdue and you forgot to buy candles?” Or fill-in your own “between quotation marks.” Our answer is unswervingly always the same. “Staying frisky at all times under all [...]

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What day is it?

Nirvana, the state of being we most strive to achieve during a well-spent life is ironically – and unfortunately – also the most unattainable. Sorry to curb your enthusiasm so early in today’s column but that’s just the way things are. Oh sure, if we’re lucky, we’ll say at some time or other – like [...]

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The Age of Frisky

Don’t you just love young people? By that I include all youngsters. From our latest 3-months-old granddaughter up to and including the people we often joke about as being in the twilight zone between 50 and the fast-approaching age of sexagenarian friskiness. “Young” is a dynamic state of mind. No question about it. When we’re [...]

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A most frisky happy nation

Sit for a couple of hours in the shade on your beach shack sun deck – as I’m wont to do – without iPod or cellphone and profound thoughts wheedle their way into your consciousness. Or is that subconsciousness? Lately I’ve been pondering just why Judy and I are so friskily happy on our tropical [...]

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Much ado about

Around this time every year Jeff’s tennis group meets together with non-tennis-playing wives, husbands and assorted partners for a casual evening starting with mainly locally-refined rum-based cocktails followed by a nice dinner at our island’s best lobster restaurant. I almost wrote ‘Tennis Club’ but that would be too much. It’s non-fee paying and doesn’t have [...]

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