It's Never Too Late to Become a Mall Rat

摘要

First, It's about health, this obsession to mall-walk at 6 a.m. come rain or shine. For the middle-aged and for us seniors in the sere and yellow leaf, the goal is 10,000 steps a day to control our weight and pump up our heart rates. "Walkers, start your pedometers" might be the command as security unlocks the door and we scrabble into the mall like rats tracking the reek of Asiago cheese to Panera bread. But we're not here to eat. We begin by stretching; we push those pillars, bending one knee at a time, reaching for the atrium and touching our toes (or ankles, knees, whatever is reachable).