At the tender age of six months, her father, decided to move the family from their home in Lafayette, Indiana, to California where his parents lived. A Civil Engineer, her father felt there would be more opportunities there for both he and his family.
Linda recalled a number of memories from those early years. "My older brother and I enjoyed playing hide and seek with neighborhood kids after dinner in the summer. We also had our own 'original' skate board. Using a roller skate-if you are over 50, you'll remember heavy metal skates that clamped onto your shoes-we removed the clamp leaving a flat surface to sit on. A pie pan was placed on the skate as a seat. While holding the edges of the pan and lifting our feet, it was an exciting ride down the hill. She remembered using the steps outside the local high school as a stage. Linda and a girlfriend took turns play-acting as movie stars and singers.
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| Five-year-old Linda outside her California home. |
Over the next few years, the family grew by two, adding a sister and brother. When Linda was ten, her father went to an auction in Los Angeles and with the help of a few savvy individuals, acquired two horses. "Their names were Root Beer, a strawberry roan, and Red, a bay. Root Beer could run with the best even though he was older and very gentle. Red must have been a cowboy horse because he made some fine cutting moves," she recalled.
Linda was anxious to ride. Standing outside the corral, she watched as Red raced from one end to the other. Was she intimidated? Her father knew his daughter was up for the challenge. After steadying the animal, he no sooner helped her up when the horse took off again. There, true to form, it made an abrupt turn, tossing Linda to the ground. As she got to her feet, gathered herself, and brushed off the dirt, her father could sense she was not satisfied or afraid, saying, 'you gotta get back on that horse.'
Thinking back on those days of tending horses, and cleaning their stalls, Linda is certain those were the activities that helped her become a responsible person. It was such an influence on her that today there are three horses-Cutter, a quarter horse, and two Arabians, Tansy and Tara, Tansy's mare-in the corral behind her house.
It was a time her father, with help from her grandfather, a contractor, built the large plantation-style house he had always wanted. Linda was fifteen when the family moved in the six bedroom, five bathroom dream house, located in the San Fernando Valley.
As long as she can remember, sports played a key role in the family. Her father had the knowledge and engineering skills to construct a three-car garage next to the house. Behind it, he made a concrete pad, the size of a half-court to play basketball. The back wall of the garage was used as a backboard for hand ball and tennis. There was also a removable pole for tether ball. Linda admitted she was a tether ball fanatic as a young girl.
"When the power of love,
overcomes the love of power,
the world will know peace."
Jimi Hendrix
Her father was not finished. He added an in-ground pool and a shuffle board court. All of this was in the back yard. It was in that active family environment where Linda, her brothers and sister could be found enjoying life.
Her mother, a physical education teacher, had enjoyed the game of basketball and played on a competitive town team. Basketball was the sport Linda, a tall, slim, teenager, developed a passion for. She would excel at the sport in both high school and college..
Linda first attended Granada High School-years later 1976-79, All-American quarterback, John Elway, would walk the same halls-but graduated from Chatsworth High School, where she was a member of the drill team, active in student government, and the Girl's Athletic Association, serving as its President her senior year.
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| Linda, the star center forward at UCSB. |
After high school, Kelly attended the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB). She majored in Physical Education, and minored in Cultural Anthropology. While at UCSB, Linda played intercollegiate basketball and tennis. The game of basketball at the time was played with six players. Today it is played with five. The sixth player was a star forward...Linda.
She enjoyed other activities as well, including badmitten, gymnastics, and volleyball. The plan of course, was for her to be a teacher, like her mother. That made it important to be competent in all areas.
"Sports do not build character.
They reveal it"
John Wooden
While at UCSB, she met a graduate student named Waldemar Smith, who at the time was preparing for a trip to Guatemala to do research on economic development there. The couple was married in 1968, under the blooming jacaranda -a tropical flowering plant-in the families back yard, before going to Central America. The couple would remain there for two years. During that time, Linda learned to speak Spanish and conducted her own research for her masters degree in physical education-motor learning.
Her student teaching at Santa Barbara High School, was done in 1971. She was asked to be interviewed for a teaching position in Boulder. "I got a job as a teacher's aide at Columbine Elementary. That was in 1972," she told me. Then added, "Soon after, I interviewed for a job in the Boulder school district. The position was at a school with a mix of Latino, black, and neighborhood kids. It was a difficult crowd. The first year was a challenge. It took at least five years before I felt confident and professional as a physical educator. I stayed nine years before moving on," she said.
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| Hiking with Richard (Waldemar Smith) in Rocky Mountain National Park. |
It was no surprise the P.E. department had a limited budget. Equipment the school had on hand included five rubber balls, three horse-hair tumbling mats and 18 baseball bats. Not much to build a curriculum on. It didn't discourage Linda one bit. Instead, she was determined to make the learning environment one her students would become excited about. She proceeded to make 25 yarn balls. She made racquets out of clothes hangers and nylon hose with matching balls. She also made long and individual jump ropes from sash cord.
The school gym also served as the lunchroom, so Linda took her students outside as much as possible. She collected milk cartons to use as targets when the students played games. She obtained used tennis balls, bicycle tubes, and car inner tubes cut into bands. She made sock balls, and stilts out of juice cans. Plastic milk or bleach bottles were cut into scoops. She also acquired a number of garage sale items...the price helped to stretch her budget.
Linda is one who always saw the bigger picture. Where there was a need to make the learning experience better, she made a difference. She excelled at providing the leadership and organizing skills to make the environment in her classes one of learning and fun. She began applying for educational grants. It was a process she would go through 15 times over almost three decades of her teaching career. All the awarded monies would benefit Boulder Valley Schools. She recalled the first two grants the school received. Funding would provide for the building of an adventure component on the playground and a Quiet Room which would provide a place for those students who preferred a more tranquil atmosphere than the often hectic playground environment, for their recreational time.
Bad, meant good
Beehive (hair style), of the 1950's and 60's
Doofus, referring to nerds in the 1960's
In 1977, the City of Boulder started a soccer program for women. A friend, aware of her exceptional athletic skills, asked Linda to play. Now, 35 years later, Linda has many fond memories of those days on the soccer fields in and around Boulder. "We played together for over thirty years," she said with a wide grin. "The team sort of varied in terms of players but there is a nucleus of about ten of us who played on the same team all of that time," she added.
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| Kelly gets a "kill" during a 1975 outdoor volleyball doubles competition. She and her teammate won five major Denver tournaments, three consecutive years. |
Town teams played in tournaments outside the city as well. Of course that required financial support. Over the years, the team was funded by various local businesses including a car dealership, a fish market, a number of restaurants, and a law firm. Many memories remain from those years, especially 1981 and '82. As a member of the 'Kickers' squad, Linda and her teammates won the over 30 Colorado Cup, both years. "We're not fast enough to keep playing but we are able to hike," she told me. Then added, "One of the girls suggested we start hiking. After we hiked a couple weeks, we said, let's do this every week."
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| Women's soccer, 1997. Linda (back row, center) and four of these women still hike together each week around Boulder. |
In addition to working hard at her career, and playing soccer, Linda found the time to play slow pitch softball with her friends, plus she ran the Bolder Boulder 10k race a number of times and played volleyball for many years. Always one for stepping up when there was a need, Linda agreed to coach the freshman girls volleyball team at Fairview High School, in 1999 and 2000. She also coached a Boulder Junior Soccer team in 1979, and her son's team twice and her daughter's team between 1989-1996.
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| Softball team, 1999. Linda (back row, second from right) and Jane Armstrong (on her left) have played volleyball, softball, basketball, and soccer together for over four decades. |
Ten years of marriage to Waldemar ended in 1978. Linda met her current husband, Jim Rhoades thru teaching. "We were both hired the same year in Boulder. I tease him because we both interviewed for a job at Bear Creek Elementary. He was hired and I was not. They hired him because he was a man, she said with a hint of a smirk, then she laughed.
When the school year was over, Jim also a P.E. teacher, was spending his summers (1977-79) as the Program Director at a summer camp for boys and girls outside Rollinsville, Colorado. A few months before the two began dating, Jim purchased Camp Shoshoni. That was in 1980. As owners and directors of a children's camp, the next few years would be an experience this young, ambitious couple would consider some of the best years of their lives.
The first summer, Linda had made plans to spend a month in Guatemala studying Spanish. It would take her far from any responsibility at the camp. The next summer, she and a friend attended a Project Adventure ropes course in Boston. When she returned, Linda encouraged Jim to install a ropes course at Camp Shoshoni, one of many upgrades the two would make during their tenure.
In a March, 1981 snow storm, the two were married on the grounds of Camp Shoshoni. Both were holding full-time teaching positions throughout this period. There was no time for either to rest. Camp Shoshoni was a structured environment for campers that promoted personal growth and learning experiences. Needless to say, there was plenty of work to do.
When they were not planning programs for campers, Jim and Linda were attending various camping and outdoor shows to promote the camp and encourage parents to register their children. As owners, they had to hire and pay the staff, clean and maintain the buildings, and of course pay the bills. For most small business owners, those tasks are done routinely throughout the week. For Jim and Linda, those things had to wait until weekends or evenings after their regular jobs. Camp Shoshoni grew and grew in terms of the number of kids and the scope of activities provided each year under their leadership. In business, the bottom line is, there must be sufficient revenue to sustain growth. Unfortunately, they never reached a breakeven point and were forced to close Camp Shoshoni.
As busy as her life was to this point, i.e. teaching career, playing and coaching soccer, plus the normal demands of married life, one thing was missing...a family.
That would change in 1982 when at age 35, her first child, Michael, was born. How did she manage everything? "Surprisingly, teaching really blended well with having a family. Michael was born and I went back to work when he was almost five months old. Because of how classes were scheduled in elementary school, I was able to go to his day care home at noon and nurse him," she explained.
Two years later, in 1984, a second child, Elizabeth (Lizzy) was born. Like her mom, Lizzy developed a love for sports. After competing in various sports in high school and college, her passion was volleyball. That passion would land her in California where she is currently working to become a professional circuit beach volleyball player. Michael, now 31, has a doctorate in Educational Psychology from the University of Northern Colorado. Currently, he is an adjunct teacher at the university.
Meanwhile, Linda was putting every ounce of remaining energy she had into her career, earning her Doctorate in Physical Education - Pedagogy, from the University of Northern Colorado. Her dissertation, "Patterns of Physical Activity in 9-10-Year-Old American Children as Measured by Heart Rate Monitoring," was turned into an article in 'Pediatric Exercise Science,' the official journal of the North American Society of Pediatric Exercise and the European Group of Pediatric Work Pysiology,' February, 2000, Volume 12, Number 1, edition.
Far Out, expression of approval, out of the ordinary
Psychedellic, greek psykhe (mind) and deloun (make visible, reveal)
Yuppie, short for Young Urban Professional
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| Doctoral Graduation, 1998, University of Northern Colorado. |
An observation from the article said, "The results of this study show 50% of girls and 54.5% of boys accumulate 30 min. or greater of physical activity at HRL (heart rate level) 4 and higher 7 days of the week as recommended by the Surgeon General. The 40% of girls and boys who accumulated 30 min. of physical activity for 5 and 6 days of the week are on the right track for obtaining health benefits. However, the 7.5% who do not reach this level most days of the week are at the greatest risk of developing health problems due to a sedentary lifestyle."
In the years to follow, Linda Kelly was as busy as she had ever been in her life. Among the long list of positions held are Executive Board member, Boulder Valley Educational Association; President, Boulder Valley Physical Education Association; President, Colorado Association of Health, P.E., Recreation and Dance; President, Boulder Valley Women's Health Center. In addition to numerous teaching awards, in 1992, Linda was awarded the Life Touch Award for Improving Students Self Esteem.
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| Jim Rhoades, Linda Kelly, Elizabeth (Lizzy), Michael, and their dog, Clifford. |
On one occasion, Linda had a commitment and needed a substitute to teach for her. The sub was Anne Spalding, also a woman dedicated to her career and determined to make an impact on the lives of youth in Boulder. In the years to follow, Spalding and Kelly would develop a special bond that has grown into a long time friendship.
In a phone interview, Spalding told me, "I had worked in Boulder Valley for 2 years when I was bumped by someone coming back off of a leave of absence. I was teaching in Adams County, District 12, when a 5th grade classroom teacher, Dave Anderson, purchased a number of balls for his students. The balls would be used to exercise with in his classroom. At an Education Expo from Physical Therapist, Joanne Posner Mayer, Dave and I started discussing the use of exercise balls. Dave then introduced me to Joanne, and soon I was using the balls with my students in my daily P.E. classes."
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| First book published in 1999. |
"Linda and I were both invited to Joanne Posner Mayer's house for lunch to discuss our use of the balls in our P.E. programs. Joanne, who had studied Physical Therapy in Switzerland, was eager to have us join her in writing what would be our first fitness book with focus being therapy/exercise balls. The book 'Kids on the Ball' also included Jan Santopiertro, a pre-school teacher as a co-author. Linda and I worked very closely while organizing chapters and themes for the book. Linda was very detail oriented and meticulous about the mechanics of each exercise. We frequently wrote collaboratively. Often times in my dining room.
It was that same year that Jim noticed a change in Linda's body. In particular, it was her inability to move fluidly and with ease. Linda visited her doctor who scheduled an MRI. The results indicated the possibility of Parkinsonian symptoms. Next, she saw a Neurologist at University Hospital, who after a number of visits confirmed the diagnosis of Parkinson's in December, 1999.
Linda told me, "You can't change the cards you are dealt in life. What you need to do is figure out how you can best play those cards."
Spalding: "The second book was 'Fitness on the Ball: A Core Program for Brain and Body.' We were working together on this book, just the two of us every Sunday. We worked long hours-page by page, it was an arduous process. We took breaks as needed, and chatted, laughed, and enjoyed each others company. I consider her to be a wonderful long time friend and confidant."
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| Second book published in 2010. |
"Linda is very authentic and down to earth, and she has an infinite amount of wisdom to share. It is a lovely combination and I've always felt lucky to have her as a friend. We always laugh hard and have great conversations When we're serious and doing a presentation, we're 100% into it. When the presentation is done, we look forward to debriefing over a glass of wine. Linda has a wonderful sense of adventure. She loves to travel and she takes her sense of humor wherever she goes. She is a wonderful mentor, and a long time friend who shares her thoughts in an open and honest way."
Linda said of her long time friend, "We met at P.E. conventions and shared curriculum and strategies for teaching the "new" physical education. For us, the "new" physical education consisted of melding basic skill acquisition with knowledge of health and fitness. And we still wanted class sessions to be playful because that is what skillful people do-play. Anne is passionate and enthusiastic about our profession. She is the epitome of an excellent physical educator. We always learned from each other when we met to write and collaborate on the books. We probably spent more time sharing our curriculum than we spent writing.
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A long and rewarding career is behind her now. One thing is certain, she told me. "I never stopped learning, and sharing what I knew and had learned. I presented at the state level P.E. conventions, Central District, and national conventions and I learned at those conventions too. Even in retirement, I am still learning and sharing."
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| Linda, outside her home. |
This woman of many roles, responsibilities, and accomplishments explained how she remains well grounded. "You know, retirement provides you opportunities. One of these is to not do anything. So staying focused I think is hard. Right now my focus is to lose weight. I felt I got hit with a triple whammy. You gain weight because you age. Then you go through menopause, next you are diagnosed (December, 1999) with Parkinson's. It causes you to gain weight because you don't move as much."
"My goal is to do yoga three times a week, Every day do some sort of weight workout. I also walk every day. Two miles is what Jim and I started doing. Lately, I've been going down to the Carbon Valley Library where there is a nice path leading to the Firestone Trail. There are trees on both sides. It's level, and it's wide. My best distance is six miles but usually I do two or three. I also have a VHF tape for an ab workout program. Jim and I do Eight Minute Abs every night," she proudly told me.
Much of her workout regiment can be done at home thanks to all around handyman, husband, Jim, who converted their two-car garage into a workout space many active adults would love to have. There are orange-colored cones, an array of balance apparatus, and yes, empty milk cartons-could they be from those years at Boulder Valley Public Schools?
"...over half of those age 65+ use the internet,
almost three-quarters of those use it daily".
I asked Linda how her approach to life has changed since being diagnosed with Parkinson's. "I don't think the diagnosis has changed my approach to life," she said. "I feel I can do any of the activities I previously had done. There are a few exceptions. I don't have the endurance I used to have. Running is not comfortable any more. So I don't play soccer. Until three years ago, I played volleyball."
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| A rigorous daily exercise schedule includes TRX Suspension Training. |
Linda has developed a rigorous schedule of daily activities at home to sustain an active and healthy lifestyle. She showed me a number of charts spelling out daily routines she developed. Each day includes ten different exercises with the number of reps. Also important is the documentation of results of each workout. Her daily routine is supplemented with balance training, TRX Suspension Training, three times each week, and a weight training workout two days a week. She also takes time for a hike-as mentioned earlier-with her friends from those years playing sports in Boulder.
When I asked what motivates her, she said, "That's a good question," (laughing). "I've been trying to find the motivation to lose weight. I think I finally found it. I think the motivation for that is to be a more normal weight so my kids would be proud of me," she said.
"The next chapter of my life, I envision myself growing old, gracefully," she told me (followed by a big smile). After thinking for a moment, she added, "I expect that I can remain active a pretty long time. Being active is important, not only for your mental health but physically, and to retain your brain power. Lots of studies now show being active will help keep your brain functioning at a high level. Being healthy is a big motivator. I feel most passionate about health, being healthy and fit. Through all my teaching and my life, I'm still passionate about it."
The average boomer is $500,000 short
of what many financial advisors say they will need to retire comfortably.
When I posed the question, What is your greatest fear, she said. "I don't have much anxiety and I don't look ahead. So I don't have a fear right now. We joke about aging, but I have no worries."
Do you have any regrets? "I regret the inability to continue some of the sport activities that I did. I really enjoyed soccer and volleyball. But part of it was the people I played with. I still see those people and hike with them. We laugh about going hiking so we can go out to dinner afterward."
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| A core workout on a ball with weights. |
What about a bucket list? "It's not a list," she told me. "I have things that float to the top. One of the things is to go on the Camino de Santiago, one of the sacred roads. It's in Spain, It starts in France and goes to the coast of Spain. It just sounds fascinating. It's 400 miles long. My idea is to go to a specific place and walk six to eight miles then go to the next town by bus so you could see where it's going. Then do another days' walk."
When I asked her about the legacy she wanted to leave her children, there was a long pause. Then she said, "I would say the legacy I'd like to leave has to do with the promotion of healthy living. That's why we wrote the 'Kids on the Ball' book."
In retirement, Linda remains a woman driven to making a difference. She explained an educational game she developed for elementary students. It is designed to not only teach kids the importance of nutrition, it does so while having fun. The game is explained in detail as a separate article on this blog. Look in archives for the title, 'Nutrient Game.'
Linda is convinced this type of learning game is a valuable tool that teachers can use to introduce children to the importance of nutrition at an early age.
U.S. births at the start/end of the boomer period:
1946 - 3.4 million
1947 - 3.8 million
1963 - 4.1 million
1964 - 4.0 million
I asked Linda to reveal one thing about herself that nobody knows. With no hesitation, she told me, "It happened thirty years ago, before I married Jim. A friend and I were bag people, in Boston. She had come out here from Pennsylvania, to go to grad school at CU. We were going to a workshop in Massachusetts for Project Adventure. We flew to New York, and hitch hiked to Boston. We were dropped off at a homeless shelter. It was so crowded that we ended up sleeping on the floor with eight or ten other people. The floor was tile, so we put stuff under our heads to make it soft. We spent the next day begging on the street. We had to find a place to spend the night. We assumed the churches were open. They were not. We finally went back to the Boston Commons. There were stages built for a concert and there was skirting around the bottom. We crawled behind the skirting and spent the night. We spent three days on the street. Then we hitch hiked to the workshop. It was an interesting experience.
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| Balance exercises are an important part of Linda's routine. |
I asked Linda about happiness, and where she is on the scale of being truly happy. "I think happiness for me is based on being confident. To be skillful in sports. To be recognized in my career. To be an officer in various organizations. All those things are evidence of competence and it brings me happiness.
Knowing Linda has an adventurous side, I asked her to explain where she wants to go. Without hesitating, she told me, "I have several places I definitely want to go. I think it would be interesting to go to Bolivia. I also would like to go to Chile. I have traveled to South America, but not to Bolivia or Chile yet.
Why Bolivia? "Bolivia is an inland country that has a population similar to Peru and the Incas. A friend and I went to Peru and Equador and had an opportunity to go to Argentina. There is so much country to explore. While we were in Argentina, we went to the second highest mountain in the world, Aconcagua, at 22,837' elevation. I would also like to go to Columbia."
I asked Linda to talk about her forty-one-year career in education. "One of the things about physical education is it's not a very respected profession. What I hope is the way I conducted my P.E. classes and promoted P.E., would help convince people it's an important, beneficial, and essential subject for the long term knowledge and skill it imparts. I tried to help people overcome any prejudices towards P.E. because people thought it was only games playing."
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| Hiking the Flatiron Vista Trail outside Boulder. |
She explained one example. "When I was teaching at Bear Creek, I was in the office doing some typing. The principal walked by and she said, 'I didn't know P.E. teachers typed. I mean, that's sort of the level of prejudice there was. There was a common perception then. I had parents do the same thing. P.E. teachers take a bad rap."
Success comes about with hard work and dedication. Along life's path, there are people who provide guidance and inspiration. Linda took advice from a number of her contemporaries. Advice that would not only help mold her into a fine educator. It was advice that helped her meet numerous challenges in life as well.
U. S. cities with the highest % of boomers:
#4 Pittsburgh (PA) and Charleston (WVA) at 28.9%
#3 Youngstown (OH) and Warren (PA) 29.1%
#2 Santa Rosa-Petaluma (CA) 29.4%
#1 Portland (Maine) 29.9%
"My first husband, Richard, encouraged me to do my masters research. I wouldn't have thought of it on my own. He encouraged me to write it up and get it finished. Then there was Lynn Riddle, who I met in graduate school. I was her Teaching Assistant. She really praised my work and motivated me to do my very best. My present husband, Jim, supported my decision to seek my doctorate. It took me eight years, since I was also working full time."
What about values? "I value responsibility in a person, plus competence and effort." she said.
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| Linda with 'Cutter', a quarter horse. |
In terms of her spiritual being, Linda told me, "I'm not a religious person, although I went to church early in my life. I started off being baptized a Congregationalist. I was confirmed as a Presbyterian. I married an Episcopalian," she said laughing. Then added, "My first husband said, you don't need to go to church to be a good person."
I asked Linda about heroes in her life. "I think a person like Hillary Clinton is a hero. She is a woman in a difficult arena where there are so many men. She has achieved a lot. Her job (Secretary of State) probably aged her twenty years."
Finally, I asked Linda to answer the question, Who am I? Her response, "First, I am a physical educator. Second, I'm a woman, Third, I'm a married woman, Fourth, I'm a married woman with two wonderful, fabulous kids.
Over the past seven months, I have come to know Linda Kelly as a dedicated, thoughtful, and progressive and positive-thinking woman. Regardless of where we met, i.e. in a restaurant, on trail, in the corral, or in her home, she remained the same person. To quote her good friend, Ann Spalding, Linda Kelly is "Authentic with an infinite amount of wisdom to share." She is "Adventurous and takes her sense of humor wherever she goes." To everything life has offered her, Linda Kelly has said yes. Her zest for life is contagious.
Authors Note: This story is the result of a conversation I had while hiking with Jo Murphy, a fellow-hiker and member of the High Country Hiker group based at the Aurora Center for Active Adults, in Aurora, Colorado.
Jo and Linda have taught various yoga and exercise classes for many years at the Women's YMCA Fitness Camp, held annually at Snow Mountain Resort, outside Tabernash, Colorado. The two have been instrumental in introducing women to the importance of daily exercise, living a healthy lifestyle, and getting and staying fit. I am fortunate to have known both of these exceptional women. Their stories have inspired me in many ways.
This is the third installment in a series of 'Life Stories' posted on this blog. The first, is the story of Helen Giossi, posted on October 22, 2011. The second, is the story of Jo Murphy, posted February 20, 2012. Jo recommended Linda Kelly to be the next Inspiring Profile. Check out both stories. You might be inspired.
Thanks to Linda Kelly, for agreeing to an interview. Her candor and detailed account of life experiences made the job of writing her story a joy. The story took seven months from initial interview to final approval. I trust it was worth the wait for readers. Thanks also to members of her family, and the group of long time friends for their support.
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