Category: Ballroom Dancing

  • No 14 Can Dancing Protect Your Brain From Aging?

    No 14 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, April 7, 2017 Can Dancing Protect Your Brain From Aging? Our Arthur Murray Santa Monica student, Diana Ungerleider, brought in an article that said there may be something unique about learning a social dance. The demands dancing places on the mind and body could…

  • No 13 “Be a Part of the Winning Team!” 3-31-17

    No 13 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, March 31, 2017 “Be a Part of the Winning Team!” “What do the right people want more than almost anything else? They want to be part of a winning team. They want to contribute to producing visible, tangible results. They want to feel the…

  • No 9 “What to give up for Lent?” 3-3-17

    No 9 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, March 3, 2017 “What to give up for Lent” It’s the 3rd day of Lent. Ash Wednesday has passed and until this past Wednesday, I did now know what I was going to give up. Late night eating (like that’s going to happen). Getting…

  • No 7 “A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.” 2-17-17

    No 7 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, February 17, 2017 “A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.” – Jack Dempsey (1895 – 1983) American professional boxer Sometimes in my life, I just can’t seem to get up, but I do. After dancing 41+ years, having run 19 marathons, having…

  • Happy Thanksgiving 11-24-16

    No 48 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, November 24, 2016 Happy Thanksgiving! I had great parents. Troy D. Woodbury and J. Clair Ford Woodbury were so good to me and gave me so much of themselves.  I was the runt of the 4 kids, spoiled and a rotten kid, but they…

  • Thorns Have Roses 11-18-16

      No 47 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, November 18, 2016 Thorns Have Roses “Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.” – Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890) French critic, journalist, and novelist “The Price of Admission” is what we pay in life to…

  • The Sun Rises Again! 11-11-16

    No 46 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, November 11, 2016 The Sun Rises Again! “There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.” – Bernard Williams (1929 – 2003) English moral philosopher In dancing, we sometimes win and sometimes we lose, but always we gain from the dancing…

  • Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it! 10-28-16

    No 44 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, October 28, 2016 “Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.”– George Eliot (1819 – 1880) English Novelist Have you ever had an acquaintance who could not make up their mind and who could not commit to something? Someone who thought they…

  • “A goal is a dream that has an ending.” 10-7-16

    No 41 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, October 7, 2016 “A goal is a dream that has an ending.”– Duke (Edward Kennedy) Ellington (1899 – 1974) American Composer Bandleader and Pianist Well, I’m a dreamer. I consciously dream and dream in my sleep. I day dream. I have nap dreams. I have…

  • Go Straight to Your Goal! 9-23-16

    No 39 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, September 23, 2016 Go Straight to your Goal! “It is the man who goes straight to his goal, obstacle or no obstacle, that commands our respect, gets our confidence, and gets to the front. He is the man who is sought in an emergency,…