“Over the years, I've covered 22,000 miles.” — Kenneth H. Cooper Quote

Over the years, I've covered 22,000 miles.

If you look at body fat, it seems to increase with age, even though your weight does not. That's a physiological fact of aging, they say. Heck it is. It is an adaptive effect of aging.

The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy.

I don't criticize weight training - as long as it is not a substitute for aerobic training.

After 26 years, I am still practicing what I preach.

I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs.

I say the Islanders were the best team I ever covered because they had more so many stars who delivered with Canadian-Swedish-suburban modesty. And they won four straight Stanley Cups from 1980 through 1983.

But also, the guest workers program, it's quite often misused, meaning people could come in as part of a guest workers program and after two weeks in the fields, they'd run off to do every other kind of job that isn't covered by a guest workers program.

After college, I covered news for a couple of years. There were things I loved and hated about it. I loved hard deadlines, watching sports for a living, writing every day, learning all about a new town, meeting its people and learning its quirks.