Among the several hats I wear, I lead an outdoor workout for employees of the city of Mill Valley twice a week at lunchtime. This is a fun job and one with unexpected perks.
For an hour I hector a group of office workers, mostly women, to climb up and down flights of the fabled Dipsea Steps, and then I make them do all sorts of unpleasant, sweaty things with dumbbells in Old Mill Park. Often they are miserable. But they keep coming back.
This has been going on for several years now. One day a few months ago, while hanging around at the library that adjoins the park, I ran into the library’s director (and one of my students) in the company of a photographer.
The result is this photo which appears on the “Find Books & Do Research” page of the library’s website. The reference librarian in the picture is named Cathy and, truth be told, we are not finding books and doing research. We are clowning for the camera. Consider it our little secret.
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