| My passion is health and wellness with a specialty | | | | room walks two women, Jo Ann and Janet. Jo |
| in anti-aging; I want you to picture this, an aging | | | | Ann is also a gym rat about fifty years old and |
| male with a group of three aging women. We are | | | | married with three teenage children. We should all |
| all in the room at the gym that houses the tread | | | | look as good as Jo Ann does at fifty, or at any |
| mill, bikes, and rowing machines. It is usually during | | | | age for that matter. She will eat nothing but all |
| the morning. The machines all face the windows | | | | natural foods and hydrates constantly, she is very |
| where the flat screen TV is. We all face the | | | | content. Her partner that arrived with her is a |
| direction of the TV as we work out and interact. | | | | lady of means and culture. Her name is Janet. |
| I imagine we are quite a site in our work out | | | | Janet is to meet the Governor's wife for tea this |
| clothing. | | | | afternoon. Janet is never seen without her |
| I am a wellness coach and they all know it. So | | | | makeup on and her hair solidly in place. She is |
| from the time I arrive until the time I leave we all | | | | very proper and never works up a sweat. She is |
| discuss our various pains and ailments, not the | | | | about seventy and a wrinkle is not to be seen on |
| least of which is getting old. | | | | her - anti-aging creams. We discuss politics and |
| Now my usual gym partner is Donna, my favorite | | | | laugh a lot. It is important not to take ourselves |
| bar tender. She is a lady in her mid forties, single | | | | too seriously and we don't. Laughter is one of the |
| and desperately attempting to hang on to her | | | | best things we can do for ourselves. |
| youthful body. She wears no make up, she needs | | | | A smile will never put a wrinkle on you but a |
| none and her one and a half at the gym every | | | | frown surely will. It is noticed that we all read a lot |
| day here maintains her figure. She eats very little | | | | and conversations can run in any direction. We |
| red meat and loves cold water fish - she does | | | | have all the answers for what is wrong in this |
| not need supplements. | | | | World and we are not bashful to share it. |
| While I am on a treadmill next to Donna into the | | | | |