Dear All,   A glorious new month and two glorious new dances!  Bolero and Waltz!  “But didn’t we just do Waltz in August?”  I hear someone asking.  Yes.  But this time we are going to focus on the American style steps, which involves more underarm turning, more side-by-side steps (like …

Dear All,   First week of Autumn, last week of September and once again I am fresh out of funny (I can hear the vast chorus of “So what’s new, Rick!?” resounding over the hills) so just a short, quick information-driven newsletter this week.  Deeper into Autumn, when the autumn …

Dear All,   And they try to tell us that rain dances don’t work!  Due to a dearth of students in last Thursday’s class (we had one student), we dedicated the night to a rain dance, doing a foxtrot so lovely that the heavens themselves began to weep. (Yes, we …

Dear All,   As the season begins to finally cool down, we find ourselves contemplating pulling out the winter linens for the bed.  If not this week, then the next.  It is supposed to get down into the thirties at night by the end of the week. Now, instead of …

Dear All, Even though the word “swelter” starts with “swel”, there is nothing swell about sweltering.  We can forlornly hope that this period of sweltering heat will be short . . . or . . . we can be proactive and traipse ourselves off to an air-conditioned environment like . …

Dear All,   The team is back together again!  Rick’s back!  Peggy’s back!  We’re all back! And, to celebrate, the Salsa and Foxtrot are coming back, too!  Since events conspired against us all to only have one class of each dance (in that first week of August, lo these many …

Dear All,   Air.      Conditioned.      Classroom.   If anything more needed to be said, you all know I’d be the one to say it.   Air.      Conditioned.      Classroom.   See you there.   Air.      Conditioned.      Classroom.   Cheers,   Rick and (yay) Peggy Nixon 530) 853-4147 /  415)215-2652 (cell) davisnixon@msn.com  …

Dear All,   It is that time of year to once again tout the air-conditioned state of the classroom at Mt. Fitness.  Not only will you be in a cooled environment, but you will also go home with new knowledge freshly emblazoned in your brain cells.  How cool is that?  …