I took Healthbolt’s Vitality Compass Challenge.

In fact, I actually took it twice. Once including my cancer diagnosis (even though it was 20+ years ago) in my answers; the second time not. Confessing my cancer actually gave me a lesser “biological age” (27.5 vs. 28.7). Both are younger than I am so I am cool with that. My life expectancy was boosted by a year or two by not confessing (97 vs. 97.2). Both were higher than the last time I played a longevity game, so once again, bonus.

It was my “healthy life expectancy” that made me gasp the first time around (34! That’s like, NOW) and try again (83.2. much better). With cancer, my “blue zone years” is 18. Without, 15.

Want to know how you rate? Go to BlueZone.com’s Vitality Compass and compute it for yourself. It’s is a like a mini-health risk assessment and takes just a few minutes. Go ahead, take it a few times and see how adding/subtracting eating and other life habits can alter your results.

**Dat Wit – Philadelphia slang for asking for your cheesesteak “with” cheese “sauce” (aka cheez whiz).

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The Vitality Compass Challenge – You Want Dat Wit?**

We need women in the workforce, yet, children need their mothers at home…in a way, the very existence of the dilemma is a mark of progress.

I suppose, but the more and more I listened to Indra and the rest of the speakers in the midst of juggling mommydom and executivedom, the more I started to doubt whether or not I even want to attempt it. Am I totally going down the wrong path here? Am I asking for something I really don’t want? Do I know what I want? Do I know what I’m in for? Indra almost got a standing ovation when she proclaimed,

The biological clock and the career clock are ticking at the same time, in conflict with one another.

That’s what Indra said. Our biological clock starts ticking just as our careers start soaring. As Rick James would say, “Ain’t that a B?”

Before I get too existential here (plenty of time for that later), let me take a break share with you some great age-related websites. First, are you curious as to how long your clock will actually tick? Check out this longevity game to see if you are in the midst of a midlife crisis or if your midlife if long past. According to this, I will live to be 90. I’m still a spring chicken. Oh joy.

Next, do you think you’re a good guesser at age? Do you often spy young’uns at the bar and think, “how did they get in here?” or glance at a seemingly non age-appropriate couple and think, “??!!??” Well, spend some time at The Age Project and see if your intuition is as good as you think it is. So far, I have been dead wrong on every single guess.

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Clocks A Tickin’