An Apple a Day…

Eat Right… Exercise… Drink Plenty of Water… Maintain a Healthy Body Weight… Five Servings a Day… Get Eight Hours of Sleep Each Night… All Things in Moderation and See Your Doctor Regularly… Did I miss any?

These were the Credos, The Mantras, The Rules I was raised with and lived my life by…
[I do enjoy veggies, but you still can’t get me to eat liver!]
I’ll pass on the ads for Wheaties, Cherrieos, Wonder Bread and Flintstone Vitamins right now…
Wait a minute… What about heredity?
It’s said, “You can choose your friends, not your family…”
Well let me tell you, the gene pool that makes up the primordial ooze you’re made of… You don’t get to choose that either!

I was bemoaning a recent routine trip to the doctor’s office the other day…
“Men Your Age…”
Its not like I haven’t heard that phrase before!
I was in my middle to late twenties the first time I recall this phrase being uttered in my direction, with my name attached to it!

If you think about it, the phrase seems to indicate that there is reference material associated somewhere with men my age…
So where is this manual, this dictionary, this all knowing all seeing script and how do I get a copy of it?
Is it for Doctors only?
What’s in Chapter 5?
[Yes, I like to sneak a peek ahead when I read…]
I’m pretty sure I know how it ends…

My friend Karl suggested that there is such a book and I quickly asked, what’s its title? I wrote down the title, thinking it was a little strange and not realizing till later, when I got off the phone, that Karl was pulling my leg…

“Old Age Is Not For Sissies” by Lois L. Kaufman and Lyn Peal Rice
A comic book! Of course, I would still like to get a copy of it!

I think what Karl was trying to tell me, no matter what comes down the pike at me next… Remember to laugh, because there isn’t jack shit you can do about the rest!

I think its time for a snack, maybe a nice cold Apple...

"Everything is funny, as long as it happens to somebody else." Will Rogers