Category: hobbies

  • Clumsy Juggling

    Clumsy Juggling

    We decided to kick it up a notch with our two-person ball passing juggle routine. We switched out three of the bean bag Zeekio balls for some glowing LED juggling balls. The LEDs are bigger and heavier than the bean bags, which led to more challenging passes. They also look better in low light, so…

  • Two Person 5 Ball Passing Jitterbugging Juggling!

    Two Person 5 Ball Passing Jitterbugging Juggling!

    Sena and I are going to break the internet with another video of two person juggling! OK, so maybe we won’t exactly break the internet—but we might give it a nosebleed. We had to think of a way to top our recent side hug version of tandem juggling with 3 balls. So, we tried the…

  • Discover Tandem Juggling Just for Fun!

    Discover Tandem Juggling Just for Fun!

    I found out about tandem juggling yesterday and learned how to do it from a YouTube video by genius juggler Niels Duinker and his sidekick, Piet van Steen. Sena and I picked it up pretty quickly. It’s a wide frame form of the 3-ball cascade. All we had to do was practice throwing a little…

  • Now Playing! See My Psychiatric Times and Medical Word News Juggling Videos

    Now Playing! See My Psychiatric Times and Medical Word News Juggling Videos

    My juggling video is up for viewing now on the Psychiatric Times website! The title is “A Journey of Juggling.” It’s in the section called More Than Medicine. You can also find it on the Medical World News website with a slightlly different title, “After Hours: Juggling 101.” It’s in the section called After Hours.…

  • Wings in the Garden

    Wings in the Garden

    We’ve got more videos of birds and a butterfly (which I think is a swallowtail) in our garden. The catbirds and oddly, song sparrows (I thought they were rare in our part of the country?) are turning out to be regular visitors. They like the mulberries and spend a lot of time preening. They visit…

  • Every Minute Counts in Physical Activity for Health Even If Your Step Counter Does Not Count It!

    Every Minute Counts in Physical Activity for Health Even If Your Step Counter Does Not Count It!

    If you want a quick read for how every minute counts in physical activity for your health, see the JAMA article “Physical Activity for Health—Every Minute Counts” (Katzmarzyk PT, Jakicic JM. Physical Activity for Health—Every Minute Counts. JAMA. 2023;330(3):213–214. doi:10.1001/jama.2023.11014). Just for fun, I tried to see if about 5 minutes of juggling would result in a change…

  • Learning to Let Go in Juggling

    Learning to Let Go in Juggling

    A couple of days ago, Sena asked me to watch her as she practiced the toss and catch in juggling 3 balls. She could do the one, two, three, catch pretty well but for some reason couldn’t let go of the ball in her left hand to move forward to the one, two, three, four…

  • Sena Looks Out the Window

    Sena Looks Out the Window

    Yesterday Sena practiced her usual 2 or 3 minutes of juggling and then took a break to look out the window. She likes to see how the garden is coming along in the backyard. In fact, lots of things go on in our backyard garden and beyond. Critters are entertaining. We’ve seen all kinds of…

  • Juggling with New Safety Goggles

    Juggling with New Safety Goggles

    I got new safety goggles the other day. They’re to protect me when I juggle. They’re made by Sattron and Sena got them on Amazon at a good price for 3 pairs. They fit over my eyeglasses. These were my old eyeglasses, which I’ve since replaced with brand new ones. I’m still a little nervous…

  • Rain Blesses Our Garden Including Evening Primrose

    Rain Blesses Our Garden Including Evening Primrose

    We were very happy when we finally got a little rain the other day. It really brightened up the garden. Sena got some evening primrose. This happens to be one of my favorite flowers. It was one of the many flowers she planted in her big garden at our first house. The evening primrose I…