The Resolute Woman

Author: resolutewoman

  • Exercise keeps you healthy

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    Scientists at King’s College London and the University of Birmingham in England studied men and women, ages 55 to 79, who bicycle regularly. The men could ride 62 miles in six and a half hours, and the women 37 miles in five and a half hours. They found that, on almost all measures, the bikers’…

  • A nice problem

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    I wish I could lose five pounds. I wish my closet was clean. I wish I had more willpower. “Modern life is a wonderful thing, rife with freedom and opportunity, but it comes with the problem of self-control,” says Daniel Akst, the author of We Have Met the Enemy: Self-control in an Age of Excess.…

  • The clutter cure?

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    If you’re not living up to your potential, “clutter is probably the culprit,” writess Pamela Druckerman, in the February 15, 2015, issue of The New York Times. Druckerman reports that the top-ranked book on The New York Times list of self-help books promises that, with an orderly house, you can “pour your time and passion…

  • One project at a time

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    Fayteen and I are resolving, once again, to get rid of some of the clutter in our homes. It’s very appropriate that I found some inspiration and helpful hints in an article from the November 22, 2011, issue of The New York Times. I uncovered the article in a pile of important and not-so-important papers…

  • Books and music

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    What will Mrs. Dashwood and her daughter Margaret do when her two older daughters go on a trip? “We shall go on so quietly and happily together with our books and our music,” Mrs. Dashwood stresses in Jane Austin’s Sense and Sensibility. I am sure that I wouldn’t want to live in England in the…

  • No choice in the affair

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    What’s to happen now to Miss Morton since Edward is engaged to someone else? “We think now,” said Mr. Dashwood, after a short pause, “of Robert’s marrying Miss Morton.” If you’ve read Jane Austin’s Sense and Sensibility, published in 1811, you know that Robert is Edward’s brother. “The lady, I supposed, has no choice in…

  • The Pursuit of Less

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    You can’t do everything. We know that’s true, but sometimes we need a reminder. Greg McKeown does a good job of reminding us about the truth in his new book Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less. “The message is to point out the madness of nonessentialism, or, as I sometimes call it, the madness of…

  • Too much vanity

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    “I put that poison in my body, mostly because of having too much vanity,” said Andressa Urach, Brazilian reality TV star, commenting on her botched plastic surgery, which resulted in gaping wounds and a long hospital stay. We found Urach’s quote in the February 1, 2015, issue of The Dallas Morning News.

  • It pays to be optimistic

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    Optimistic people seem to have healthy hearts. Even after adjusting for all sorts of socioeconomic issues, “people who are the most optimistic do have higher odds of being in ideal cardiovascular health,” says Rosalba Hernandez, lead author of a research study and an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She’s not sure…

  • Thank you to a dutiful wife

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    Dr. E. Donnall Thomas received a Nobel Prize in 1990 for his work establishing bone-marrow transplants as an effective weapon against blood diseases. For years, his wife, Dorothy, worked alongside her husband, drawing blood from patients, checking lab results and doing background research. She even wrote and edited many of Donnall’s scientific papers, reports The…