​​One of the best parts about summer is being able to take advantage of the warm weather. In fact, May is National Bike Month! This month provides an opportunity to highlight all the great benefits of biking. Celebrate by biking to the gym, the office, or around your neighborhood.

Biking is not only great for the environment, but for your physical, mental and financial health as well.

Bike for Your Body
Regular cycling can decrease stress levels, strengthen your muscles and flexibility, and increase cardiovascular fitness. Think of it this way: A 155-pound person biking at a pace of 10-12 mph will burn around 7 calories per minute. This same person would burn less 5 calories per minute by walking. Still not convinced? Research shows that you’ll continue to burn calories even after you stop riding.

Bike for Your Mind
Biking not only improve your physical fitness, but your mental health as well. Studies have shown that people who bike have improved self-esteem and reduced depression and anxiety. Whenever something has you stressed, why not hop on a bike and ride it out?

Bike for Your Wallet
Cut down on your expenses by incorporating cycling into your life. In fact, a daily 4-mile bike commute can save you 66 gallons of fuel in one year. You can save money on transit, gas, or maintenance for your car.

Great for all aspects of your health, you’re out of reasons not to start biking. 

OCEAN beach was so wide this morning during my jog that the sand had piled up like rolling hills up to the seawall and the steps.

The beach seemed endless.  One could walk forever in the fog and  the cold. I could climb Seal Rock where thousands of birds flocked and mussels clung to the rock and close by on the beach birds of different feathers (crows and seagulls) gathered to devour a dead baby shark. 

​Meanwhile, helicopters like something out of M*A*S*H hovered over a turbulent sea to stage a fake rescue attempt. 

In a sinister cave, we came upon a graffiti of God and a sleeping man half covered in a sleeping bag awoke; he smiled at us in the light and whispered good morning . . . 

To increase corporate presence and businesses in downtown and the financial district of San Francisco, all employee lunches should be 2 hours as long as employees patronize restaurants and retail shops both local and natiional chains for at least 45 minutes while working downtown or in the financial district.  

Yes, sometimes it takes a full hour to finish shopping with lines being so long in practically every store during the lunch hour.  

Lunch, too, can take up an entire hour just waiting to be fed.

For the second hour, the City pays for employee lunches as an incentive to encourage more businesses to locate toour great city.

So where would the City get all this money to pay for this...well, we'll have raise taxes and tax the richest people more or increase sales taxes.

​Just a thought.

That day when a song you hear just once and you can't get out of your head.  You find yourself singing it even walking down the street or doing anything.  You hear the song over and over again:  "A kiss may be grand..." Marilyn Monroe does it best. 
 


"A kiss may be grand
But it won't pay the rental
On your humble flat
Or help you at the automat

Men grow cold 
As girls grow old
And we all lose our charms in the end
But square-cut or pear-shaped
These rocks don't loose their shape
​
Diamonds are a girl's best friend"