Arlette Gaffrey

Arlette Gaffrey

About

For those of youwho would like to know something about me, I was born and raised in NewOrleans. I am a French and Spanish Creolé. My family settled in NewOrleans in 1834.

When I was eighteen,I began modeling and I loved it. It was shortly after World War II andit was time for beautiful clothes to come back. I was lucky to be ableto wear the best high fashions that were all the rage at the time. Imodeled until I was in my late fifties. I was also married to a careerNaval Officer who was a pilot. I have three children and sixgrandchildren.

I loved being a stay-at-home mom.I loved being with my children; to me it was always fun. I loved mylife as a Naval Officer's wife with all the moving and never knowingwhere we would live when we got there.

Other things I love,beside reading and writing, include old movies. And I do mean old--somedate back to when I was a child in the 1930s. I have 1,300 old moviesin VHS and DVD formats in my library. I love the music of the bigbands, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey and so many others. I love spendingtime at the pool where I work on my tan and read.

And--I dearly love my hometown,New Orleans. There's an old saying, "You can take a native out of NewOrleans, but you can't take New Orleans out of a native."

Learning to Breathe Fire: The Rise of CrossFit and the Primal Future of Fitness

Learning to Breathe Fire: The Rise of CrossFit and the Primal Future of Fitness

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<p><b>The absorbing, definitive account of CrossFit's origins, its explosive grassroots growth, and its emergence as a global phenomenon.</b><br /> <br />One of the most illuminating books ever on a sports subculture, <i>Learning to Breathe Fire </i>combines vivid sports writing with a thoughtful meditation on what it means to be human. In the book, veteran journalist J.C. Herz explains the science of maximum effort, why the modern gym fails an obese society, and the psychic rewards of ending up on the floor feeling as though you're about to die. <br /> <br />The story traces CrossFit’s rise, from a single underground gym in Santa Cruz to its adoption as the workout of choice for elite special forces, firefighters and cops, to its popularity as the go-to fitness routine for regular Joes and Janes. Especially riveting is Herz’s description of The CrossFit Games, which begin as an informal throw-down on a California ranch and evolve into a televised global proving ground for the fittest men and women on Earth, as well as hundreds of thousands of lesser mortals. <br /> <br />In her portrayal of the sport's star athletes, its passionate coaches and its “chief armorer,” Rogue Fitness, Herz powerfully evokes the uniqueness of a fitness culture that  cultivates primal fierceness in average people. And in the shared ordeal of an all-consuming workout, she unearths the ritual intensity that's been with us since humans invented sports, showing us how, on a deep level, we're all tribal hunters and first responders, waiting for the signal to go all-out. </p>

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