Ashley Brown

Explore the best local trails in and around Salt Lake City for walkers, runners, and hikers of all ages and abilities Includes more than 40 trails, ranging from a mile-long stroll to a 35-mile-long parkway with multiple access points Compact, colorful package--perfect stocking stuffer Author is a Utah native Urban Trails: Salt Lake City will get residents and visitors alike outside on more than 40 routes in the beautiful parks, canyons, and mountains in and around this fast-growing city. Whether readers are looking to walk, run, or hike, this full-color guide offers a wide range of options from short, easy jaunts to more challenging all-day hikes. From the network of preserves and parks close-in to the more rugged canyons and majestic Wasatch peaks just outside the city, readers will find a plethora of choices for enjoying all that the area has to offer. This accessible guidebook includes: Detailed trailhead directions that include public transportation options whenever available Information on the area's wildflowers and flowering shrubs and trees Amenities for each destination such as restrooms, picnic facilities, playgrounds, and more Trail distance, high point, elevation gain, and other details Info for families with kids, dog owners, and winter trail users

In this collection, Ashley Brown takes us with her on a year-long journey she purposefully devoted to grieving the loss of her soul-dog, listening, learning, and looking for home within herself, without her constant companion. She shares moments and reflections on this transformative year-her travels, anxieties, encounters with wild animals, solitude, foster dogs, relationship challenges, and finally, adopting a dog and moving. In each story from both her literal and spiritual adventures, Brown seeks the wisdom found in nature, the opportunity born from lostness, the beauty in the messes, the grace laced within the pain.

A compelling narrative of the trials and triumphs of tennis champion Althea Gibson, a key figure in the integration of American sports and, for a time, one of the most famous women in the world. From her start playing paddle tennis on the streets of Harlem as a young teenager to her eleven Grand Slam tennis wins to her professional golf career, Althea Gibson became the most famous black sportswoman of the mid-twentieth century. In her unprecedented athletic career, she was the first African American to win titles at the French Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open. In this comprehensive biography, Ashley Brown narrates the public career and private struggles of Althea Gibson (1927-2003). Based on extensive archival work and oral histories, Serving Herself sets Gibson's life and choices against the backdrop of the Great Migration, Jim Crow racism, the integration of American sports, the civil rights movement, the Cold War, and second wave feminism. Throughout her life Gibson continuously negotiated the expectations of her supporters and adversaries, including her patrons in the black-led American Tennis Association, the white-led United States Lawn Tennis Association, and the media, particularly the Black press and community's expectations that she selflessly serve as a representative of her race. An incredibly talented, ultra-competitive, and not always likeable athlete, Gibson wanted to be treated as an individual first and foremost, not as a member of a specific race or gender. She was reluctant to speak openly about the indignities and prejudices she navigated as an African American woman, though she faced numerous institutional and societal barriers in achieving her goals. She frequently bucked conventional norms of femininity and put her career ahead of romantic relationships, making her personal life the subject of constant scrutiny and rumors. Despite her major wins and international recognition, including a ticker tape parade in New York City and the covers of Sports Illustrated and Time, Gibson endeavored to find commercial sponsorship and permanent economic stability. Committed to self-sufficiency, she pivoted from the elite amateur tennis circuit to State Department-sponsored goodwill tours, attempts to find success as a singer and Hollywood actress, the professional golf circuit, a tour with the Harlem Globetrotters and her own professional tennis tour, coaching, teaching children at tennis clinics, and a stint as New Jersey Athletics Commissioner. As she struggled to support herself in old age, she was left with disappointment, recounting her past achievements decades before female tennis players were able to garner substantial earnings. A compelling life and times portrait, Serving Herself offers a revealing look at the rise and fall of a fiercely independent trailblazer who satisfied her own needs and simultaneously set a pathbreaking course for Black athletes.

This book takes a very serious, critical, and provocative look at the Christian church and its doctrines and concludes that they are not the truth of God but rather the wisdom of men. Also, it was the Christian church that had, in early stages, overthrew the New Testament church of God.

This book takes a very serious, critical, and provocative look at the Christian church and its doctrines and concludes that they are not the truth of God but rather the wisdom of men. Also, it was the Christian church that had, in early stages, overthrew the New Testament church of God.

Letters to the Daughter I'll Never Have navigates the gut-wrenching territory of a couple's ultimate decision to opt out of parenthood. More and more women, and men, are choosing not to have children, but that choice is seldom a simple or easy one to make. In this book of letters to her imaginary daughter, Ashley Brown delves into the grief over what she'll be missing out on--feeling a mother's unconditional love; sharing stories and advice; and experiencing the fulfillment of creating a family with her husband of eight years, author and poet Nathan Brown. She also explains to her daughter the reasons for her decision and the fears and doubts about raising a child in today's world. She even acknowledges the relief of certain challenges she'll never have to face and sacrifices she won't have to make. Sometimes brutally candid, sometimes funny and heartwarming, Brown's letters take readers with her on the journey of arriving at this almost impossible decision all while celebrating love and family.

Anna Baker has been a notorious jobslut ever since unceremoniously quitting her first fast food job as a teenager. Now she has about as much chance committing to a career as Richard Branson does to retiring. Unsure if this is something to celebrate or worry about, she moves to London and proceeds to bounce around from promising positions at a law firm to a brief fling as a marital detective and everything in between. In between talking her way into jobs she is in no way qualified for, like preparing the dead for viewings at a mortuary and selling slum flats, she injects a little nonsense into the humdrum life of the normals around her- without ever trying to face her past. When she finally stumbles into a career that seems perfect-weird hours, lots of shopping, plenty of wine-but starts to flake out anyway, her closest friends begin holding up mirrors she cannot avoid. Will Anna ever realize the things she keeps running from may be all she ever wanted? In this hilarious novel about all the places we look for fulfilment, Jobslut is perfect for those still trying to find themselves in the biggest relationship of them all: the nine-to-five.