Hiya Club 39ers! We're still kickin' ...

If you were following this site, my apology for the apparent lapse. Actually, I just moved everything to one place ... the official 39 and Holding Club. Please feel free to meander through these archives, dating back to our 2012 beginning - then pop over to the new site where we're still thinking young! 
Remember: It isn't your age ... it's your attitude that counts!TM Cheers!

Are Fruits and Veggies a Natural Time Machine?

Take me back to 39 … take me back to 39 … take me back to 39 … no, silly, not the year, the AGE.

If I say it three times and munch a couple blackberries, will I be 39 years old again?! Slim, tennis-worthy, shiny hair (without L’Oreal’s auburn color)? Hmmmm … nope. Didn’t work.

Ah, well. However, I still believe aging is as much attitude as it is an unstoppable physical progression.

This doesn’t stop us from trying every miracle drug or food combination the next anti-aging guru puts forth. Bottom line (and I do mean the bottom pun) is our overall health and slowed aging benefits from offerings of the garden.

“… while many foods from chocolate to popcorn promise these health benefits, your best bet for a long, vibrant future begins with produce,” says Oprah.com on Yahoo!’s Shine.

Do I eat tons of fruit and vegetables? Sadly, no. As a kid, I consumed the standard veggies when forced to, and many basic fruits. But for some reason, they never became a standard in my diet. 

Although I’m told I look young “for my age” (appreciate and loathe that statement), and I’m relatively healthy, it’s possible my “extra” stubborn weight hangs on likely because I do not eat the good-for-you foods at an age when it truly matters.

How about you? Have your eating habits changed as an adult? For the better or worse? Or like me, have you tried to eat better, to no avail?

Fruits and veggies won’t turn back time, but …

I’m 39 and Holding – AGAIN! Life and Legacies

Scorpio: Oct 23-Nov 21 - cares deeply; hurts deeply

The Moon enters mystical Pisces today to soften the Scorpio sting … yep, it’s that time of year … turkey on the table, un-boxing Christmas decorations … and … my birthday!   

It was four yearsago to the day that I bought the 39AndHoldingClub.com domain name. Though I haven’t had the time I’d like to devote to it, at least it now has a presence and some fun pages to peruse when you realize that “Life isn’t about age … it’s an attitude!”

By the time you begin ignoring birthdays if you haven’t already, you may start thinking about the legacies you will have established by the time you head on up to Rock &Roll Heaven (that’s my vision of it anyway).

Here’s a thought to ponder … even if you don’t consciously create a legacy (or two or three), you will leave some. It’s the essence of being human that we affect those we leave behind, in some way. Do your “default” legacies reflect how you want to be remembered?

Milestone Birthday Parties – Fun or Frustrating?

Depends on your att-i-tude …

Here at 39AHC we believe every birthday should be celebrated with equal pomp and circumstance. However, before we arrived at this mature state of mind …

PAR – TY! Ah yes, the good ol’ days. When we thought aging was for old people and birthdays were simply the BEST reason to party hearty.

I won’t deny it … I partied through the 1980s and loved every minute of it. I danced my way around many a nightclub and concert. Rock, R&B, a little smoooooth Jazz, and yes even some Disco. But somewhere towards the end of that festive decade I also turned … yipes! The big 4-0.

Single, at my best weight (I’ll never see that again), and livin’ in San Diego just begs for a blowout 40^th birthday. And my girlfriends done me proud!

Win the coveted "00039" Lifetime Membership!

The 39 and Holding Club is official! We have a website, a blog, a Twitter account, and finally a Facebook page! Phew ... are my fingers tired ... 

But hey, nothing stops me from having fun (well, OK, enough work to keep things running, but that's it). And today's fun was all about making a contest to give away the one and ONLY Lifetime Membership #00039.

Enter here ...
Will YOU win it? You will if you submit the best tip or technique in our 39 Ways to Stay Young contest! Like the 39 and Holding Club, it's all in fun--not much seriousness to be had, but there are a few other cool prizes I hope you'll like. Deadline, Saturday, June 23, 2012 (not long, so hurry!).

Even if you're already a 39AHC member, you can win--we'll simply retire your old number and issue the coveted 00039 membership card. How cool is that?

Your membership in the 39 and Holding Club makes you officially, forever young! It's cheap and easy--tell your friends--or better yet, buy them a gift membership for their next birthday!

Check out the contest rules and prizes--Club 39 contest--and join today!


So tell me--what's your secret to staying young? :-)

Here a Link, there a Link, everywhere a Link, Link

In roaming around the ‘Net looking for interesting links for active 39ers, I found many “health,” “fitness,” and “how-to-do-practically-anything,” sites, blogs, and organizations—all wonderful topics, with some wonderful and many not-so-terrific representatives.

What didn’t I find? Ways to maintain our fun and active lifestyles after we’ve been deemed “old” by society.

Most of the information I’ve uncovered so far pertains to our physical and physically mental aging process and how to cope or in some claims, slow/stop/reverse the effects. That’s all well and good—so long as you disseminate between what is true for you, and what is not, or simply what is purely bogus.

But my whole premise for the 39 and Holding Club is to treat your ethereal state of mind … that spirit which is the essence of you … not how to oil your creaky hips, or remember everything on the grocery list you “forgot” on the kitchen table.

Why “39 & Holding”? Because “40 isn’t funny …”

My good friend, John F. Harnish, recently reminded me that Jack Benny was the consummate 39-year-old. Mr. Benny was a popular radio, TV, and movie comic actor from the 1930s through most of the 1960s. He perfected a droll, penny-pinching persona who refused to age past his 39^th birthday.

Mr. Benny reportedly began his running gag to celebrate his 39^th year—again … and again—because “40 isn’t funny.” And Jack Benny was all about being funny. He demanded it—and he got it.

 

For those of us who remember his television shticks (I do, barely, of course—being just a kid myself—heehee), The Jack Benny Program was a highlight of our evening entertainment on the tiny boob tube. Mr. Benny and his cast of kookie characters and high-profile celebrities kept us laughing throughout the show.

The venerable comic was 39 years old 41 times before he passed into Comedian Heaven (in 1974, at 80 years old), and gave more character and emphasis to “Well,” than anyone I have ever heard utter the word.