I’ve spent the weekend with a lovely group of women at a place called The Wild Rice Retreat, which is a beautiful spa hotel in the town of Bayfield Wisconsin. What’s interesting is that I didn’t know any

We are in the peak days of autumn color here in Minnesota. The brilliant autumn colors in the bright sun cause this exhilarating feeling to well up in me that I can’t explain. It happens to me every year.

Hubby and I took a walk on the long trail that takes us to the lake. It was the perfect evening. And plenty of others were enjoying exercise, the fresh autumn air and the fall colors. I love the sugar

My husband I are enjoying a weekend with relatives in the town of Bemidji, Minnesota, where they live. It’s about a four-hour drive from where we live, near Minneapolis. We had a great day, with several

Hubby and I took a neighborhood walk, looking for colorful trees. Of course the days are getting so short now that it was already dusk as we set out after dinner. So the colors were not as vibrant as one

My day actually started with an aqua cardio class at the gym. My step tracker is my phone so I didn’t capture any of those steps. But the gym is located at the edge of a marsh with a trail running through

We had a hot and breezy early fall day yesterday. I donned my hat with the strap that holds it on in the wind and headed for a lake in Minneapolis called Bde Maka Ska. The area was originally inhabited

Okay, here’s the problem with pickleball, versus walking a trail, and all the other things I do for fun and exercise: I almost never take any pictures! I’m honestly too busy running around on the court.

Even though this is my Actifit post for the day, and I got some great steps (and I Shouldbe writing a Wednesday Walk post), I’m going to write instead about my fall flowers and my happy bees. I did take

So here’s how I record steps while kayaking. I know we are all about steps here in Actifit. But behind that is the goal to move every day, and so I believe kayaking qualifies. What I do is I wear my phone

I took a walk around a reservoir where I love to walk anytime of year. We are still in early fall and the colors are not at their peak yet, so there is much more green than yellow. I took a little side

It happened sometime last spring, about a month after being hospitalized for a week with a deadly variety of pneumonia. I had played pickleball a few times and really liked it. But it wasn’t until I emerged

I took a lovely walk through some charming neighborhoods near the ball field where my son was playing baseball. He plays on a men’s league, and he always wants to get there an hour before game time, so

There’s nothing like a weekend get-away with some good friends to freshen up one’s outlook on life. And this one came at the change of the seasons, which is always a nice opportunity for a reset. We have

You know those days where you get plenty of steps just because you’re moving around and getting things done? I had one of those days. It started with hosting a brunch in the late morning. With a house

The trouble with pickleball is that you really can’t take any pictures while you’re playing. It’s all consuming! So that was my activity of the day — a Friday evening pickleball league — but I literally

Hubby and I had one of our favorite outings on a beautiful summer evening (because yes, it is still technically summer). We love to go to a delightful restaurant overlooking some gardens and a large manmade

I walked through some neighborhoods near home this evening. It is the perfect season for certain shrub and tree varieties of hydrangeas. The one above was the most spectacular one I saw, but there were

It is that lovely time of year here, where summer fades into fall. We start to see the signs of Autumn by the last days of August in Minnesota. And now the red leaves are emerging in little bits here and

I’ve had a fun and active weekend so far, on a little reunion trip with my four siblings. We all live in different places, but try to get together once a year at some property my brother owns on the Oregon