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HotSprings is for taking care of yourself. Walking clubs, yoga studios and sensible grandmothers share what keeps them well.

Featured Homesteads in HotSprings

	The Tuesday Night Walkers by Barb & the group · HotSprings/Trail A neighborhood walking club: routes, the mileage log and the annual charity walk.
	Grandma Jo's Home Remedies (and Common Sense) by Jo H., 71 · HotSprings/Spa Chicken soup, a humidifier and a good night's sleep: sensible home care for colds and such.
	Riverbend Yoga & Stretch BUSINESS HotSprings/Studio Gentle yoga and stretch classes for beginners and seniors, with the fall 1999 schedule.
	Walking the Dog, Losing the Weight by Bill Hartman, 51 · HotSprings/Sauna How a beagle named Charlie got his owner off the couch: 40 pounds and a year of walks.
	Masters Swimming After 50 by Joan Whitaker · HotSprings/Pool Swimming laps with a masters club: sets, stroke tips and why the pool at 6 a.m. is the best place on earth.
	The Bicycle Commuter by Jenna Wesner · HotSprings/Garden Riding to work year-round in a Midwestern city: the route, the gear, the rain and the winter.
	Lakeside Massage Therapy BUSINESS HotSprings/Spa Swedish and deep-tissue massage by appointment, with rates, what to expect and gift certificates.
	Chemo Brain JOURNAL by Laurie Szabo · HotSprings/Garden A mother of two writes through breast cancer treatment: the red drug, the wig and the kids.
	The Long Goodbye JOURNAL by Joan Mackey · HotSprings/Pool A wife writes about caring for her husband, who has Alzheimer's at sixty-one.
	Thirty Days, Again JOURNAL by Wayne Guidry · HotSprings/Studio A man in recovery from compulsive gambling counts days and dollars on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
	Breathe by Sunny Abrams · HotSprings/Sauna A yoga teacher in Boulder on breath, her garden, and her long road to being okay.
	Butterfly Days by Marisol Caswell · HotSprings/Spa A San Antonio mom with lupus shares her story, what helps her, what not to say, and a diary of this summer's flare.
	Low Blood Sugar, High Mileage by Gavin Moorehouse · HotSprings/Garden Fifteen years of type 1 diabetes, an insulin pump and two Portland Marathons, plus answers to every odd question people ask.
	Bad Coffee and Good People by Walt R. · HotSprings/Pool One alcoholic's two years sober: what it was like, what changed, what it's like now, and where to find a meeting.
	Hal's Tomatoes by Bernadette Walkup · HotSprings/Garden My first year as a widow, month by month, from the day Hal died to the first tomatoes I grew in his garden.
	Forty-Three Steps by Lorraine Fluharty · HotSprings/Trail A former teacher and hiker near Asheville writes, a few minutes at a time, about living with chronic fatigue syndrome.
	The Dark Room by Philip Rosemond · HotSprings/Studio A Seattle photographer with migraine explains auras, triggers, the headache diary and when to see a doctor, on a page kept dim on purpose.
	It Passes by Kevin McMillan · HotSprings/Spa A Philadelphia claims adjuster with panic disorder answers the questions people ask him, with a big-letter page for reading during an attack.
	Yellow Jersey: Lance Armstrong and Me by Peter Trowbridge · HotSprings/Trail Lance beat cancer and won the Tour de France. His story, the 1999 Tour, my own story, and a word to men about self-exams.
	Polio, Then and Now by Mildred George · HotSprings/Pool I had polio in the summer of 1952, when I was four. Forty years later it came back to visit. What post-polio syndrome is, and what helps.
	Yes, You Still Have Both Kidneys by Mary McCready · HotSprings/Spa A transplant coordinator explains, with a straight face, why nobody ever woke up in a hotel bathtub full of ice. Then please sign your donor card.
	Carrie's Run 5K by Curtis Creighton · HotSprings/Trail My wife Carrie loved running almost as much as our kids and her second graders. The second annual Carrie's Run raised $11,400 for free mammograms.
	48 Weeks: Me and Hep C by Larry Neumann · HotSprings/Studio A blood bank letter told me I had hepatitis C. Thirty-seven weeks into treatment: what it is, how I got it, what the shots are like.
	Smoke-Free in Kentucky by Randell Hibbard · HotSprings/Sauna Twenty-two years, a pack and a half a day. I quit on New Year's Day 1999. My counter, my story, what helped, and the Quitters' Board.
	The Zipper Club by Stanley Holub · HotSprings/Trail Heart attack at the shop in January, quadruple bypass two days later, three miles a day now. Welcome to the Zipper Club.
	Friends of the Sandy Valley Rail-Trail by Isaac Krueger · HotSprings/Trail Fourteen miles of old railroad bed in northeast Ohio are becoming a trail for walkers, bikes and wheelchairs. The first 4.2 opened in June.
	Keeping Cool with MS by Laverne Calvert · HotSprings/Spa I've had MS since 1979 and Charleston summers since 1966. My story, the weekly shot that's helped, and every trick I know for staying cool.
	Gut Feelings by Christopher Fogg · HotSprings/Garden Crohn's disease since I was seventeen, surgery last year, and a job at a video store. What Crohn's is, minus the gross parts.
	Two on a Tandem - Oregon to Virginia, Summer 1999 by Laurence and Janis Cabrales · HotSprings/Trail 4,250 miles, 71 days, 11 flat tires, one marriage still intact. Laurence steered, Janis pedaled and read the map, and Kentucky's dogs chased us both.
	Eight Days in Honduras - Our Medical Team, March 1999 by Fannie Olaughlin · HotSprings/Spa Four months after Hurricane Mitch, fifteen of us from Knoxville set up a clinic in a mountain schoolhouse. We saw 1,140 patients in five days.
	11 TO 7 - A Night Shift Comic by Katherine Goldsmith · HotSprings/Spa A comic about working nights in the ICU: the 3 a.m. hour, coffee that's been on the burner since ten, sleeping in the daytime, and never, ever saying the Q word. New every Tuesday.
	Sit Up Straight and Read This by Miriam McIntire · HotSprings/Pool Forty-one years a nurse, twenty of them in charge. Drink a glass of water. I'll wait. Now read about me, my grandchildren, my water aerobics class and the things you ought to be doing.
	Prairie Spokes Bicycle Club - Des Moines by Hubert Reimer · HotSprings/Trail A, B and C rides every week, a hundred miles in one day every October, and nobody gets dropped on the B ride. Our rides, our rules of the road, and the fall century.

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