A district manager of Aldi stores in Center Valley, Pennsylvania, Kirbi Isaac began work in the position after only one year of training. From 2013 to 2016, Kirbi Isaac coached girls aged 10 to 16 in cheerleading.
Offering many physical and mental benefits for young people, cheerleading is physically demanding and calls for high levels of fitness and the ability to balance and tumble in rhythm. Strength and focus are necessary for stunts.
Over time, muscles in the shoulders, core, and lower body become suitably powerful. Practicing for stunts also brings coordination and better posture.
While the physical aspects of cheerleading are obvious, the social and mental benefits are also important. Each member of a cheerleading squad is vital, and being a part of a group brings team-building skills and improves the ability to take direction. The support of teammates also helps build confidence.
Based in Center Valley, Pennsylvania, Kirbi Isaac works for Aldi, Inc., as a district manager. In that position, she has been responsible for as many as half a dozen locations of the popular, low-cost supermarket. An avid reader, Kirbi Isaac enjoys books ranging from the Harry Potter series to the novels of Stephen King.
Among King’s recent works is Finders Keepers (2015), which explores the tenuous relationship between authors and their fans. In the novel, John Rothstein, a reclusive New Hampshire author like J. D. Salinger, gained a reputation in the 1960s as a rebellious author and has been silent since.
When three robbers break into the author’s home, things go wrong, and the author and two perpetrators wind up dead. The third remaining criminal, Morris, is a literary sort, who was inflamed by a plot betrayal by the late author. He finds Rothstein’s unpublished notebooks, including drafts of sequels, much more valuable than the $24,000 the botched robbery netted.
After winding up in jail and being released on parole, Morris returns to his hidden stash and devises a way to help his impoverished family by selling the manuscripts. Unfortunately, a retired police officer is on the case, and a classic race against time ensues, but it also involves a supernatural twist.
Finders Keepers is constructed as a book within a book, and it has been lauded by critics for the way it gets into the mind of those whose lives are changed by the works they consume as readers.
