America Peals

Paradise Park

Greetings and salutations from La Jolla where June gloom is apparently wearing off! Ok. So, I read a lot. I wanted to share a story from a book I finished yesterday. Allegra Goodman, who is well known for her work, Kaatterskills Falls, authored this unusual book entitled, Paradise Park. Sharon, the protagonist is a lost soul. [...]

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Chub Scrub

Their web page header reads: Have Sex With The Lights On.

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Step Aerobics is EVIL

Step (from Step Aerobics) is PEST spelled backwords (sort of...)

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Zumba Class: Sharks vs Jets

However, the class turned into an 1980's dance off. The class was almost equally divided between Latinas and Blacks. I, completely serious, was the only white girl in class. And, there were two very pregnant women taking the class back to back.

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Barefoot running…so easy a caveman can do it?

I believe that the human body works better when allowed to adapt and adjust to the earth and weight and force on its own terms...

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Strategy & The WOD

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail...

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Life as Rx’d: Week One

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. And many of my steps were forward moving.

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Lift Like A Girl

Application is secondary to knowledge. Wax on. Wax off.

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I am alive. I am in La Jolla. I am at CrossFit Counter Culture.

Inevitably, melancholy will set in when the universe dictates, as it always does, that life is a bitch and nothing worth achieving is a study in quickness or breaking the time space continuum.

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Off to La Jolla. Chapter Two: CrossFit on the Left Coast

Sometimes people fall off the face of the earth. And, sometimes people reappear. I am frantically packing for a 5 p.m. flight to Long Beach, CA, where starting on Monday I will be working with SitesAsRX.com and LifeasRx.com. In addition to working as a writer for this hip website cum apparel marvel, I will be engaged in my [...]

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