Recently, Florida resident Valerie Bezdek filed a complaint against Vibram Five Fingers charging that, had she known beforehand that their advertising is deceptive and fraudulent, and that their “barefoot shoes” are being sold at a premium— $85 to $100— she wouldn’t have bought them. She’s enlisted the law firm of Berman DeValerio, known for class [...]
I’m sipping espresso inside a corner cafe while pecking away on a blog post, and suffering, along with the cafe staff, the satellite radio’s dozen or so torturously repeating songs. Occasionally I pull my eyes off the 13″ screen to reorient my perspective to the larger world— patrons, passing cars, flat panel TVs suspended from [...]
Today, in The New York Times, an article appeared with research suggesting that exercise may improve learning and memory. I’ve been a fitness coach since 1983, and I began lifting weights in 1973, so in my circles the link between physical activity and mental acuity (and more) has been old news. It’s not so much [...]
Many of us enjoy having a glass of fine wine, an after-work cocktail, or a cold beer. I wonder how many of us, though, embraced of the taste of alcohol at first sip. You see, taste is learned, and if not for rites-of-passge and peer pressure, loosening inhibitions and the promise of blunting emotional pain, [...]
BANG! It was as loud as the crack of the .357 magnum I heard being fired at the gun range last night, however it was the sound of my Jeep’s driver’s side mirror being smashed. Several seconds earlier I noticed the yellow Hummer H2 barreling toward me, left-side mirror, tires, headlight, and driver taking up [...]