Bella Dancer
RUSSIA & UKRAINE: Why I Write What I Write
This is why I write about childhood bullying. "OMGawwwwwd, it happened so long ago. Get over it!" Yup, it did. And it's all the same...
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Memoir Table of Contents
Welcome Aboard!
--"Izzy, how did you start dancing?"
--"What got you into martial arts?"
--"What kind of dancer/martial artist/writer are you?
--"How do you deal with brain damage, bodily injury and
C-PTSD, yet still dance, write, train, live the way you do?"
--"How do you still find joy and beauty amidst pain and loss?"
--"Wow, you should write your memoirs!"
This Is My Story
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Bella Dancer
- Aug 20, 2021
- 16 min
TOMORROW...MAYBE - My Obsessions with Annie, Acting, Singing & Dance
Continued from: --CAT SCRATCH FEVER - My Oldest Obsession ...you have noooooo idea how much I confine this kitty-cat obsession to the...
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Bella Dancer
- Aug 18, 2021
- 11 min
CAT-SCRATCH FEVER - My Oldest Obsession
I may have mentioned that I can be obsessive. Occasionally? A little. Ahem. It all started with kitty-cats. As a little girl, I always...
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Bella Dancer
- Jul 17, 2021
- 10 min
FINDING FAITH - In a Box of Old, Important Things
Continued from: DRAMA QUEEN - That Time I Bombed My Theater Major DYE JOB - How a Coin & Fringe Bra Literally Saved My Life BABY BELLY...
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Bella Dancer
- Jan 17, 2021
- 9 min
JONATHAN - Reprise.
If you don't know about JONATHAN, then this piece won't make much sense to you. June 1991 18 years old In the late-morning hush of our...
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Bella Dancer
- Jan 16, 2021
- 13 min
HOLDING OUT FOR A HERO...Or At Least Graduation
I didn't break up with Shane after that horrible day on the rock. Well, not to his knowledge. I fully own to taking the cowardly route....
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Bella Dancer
- Jan 11, 2021
- 14 min
CINDER-BELLA - Ballrooms, Ballplayers, Boulders & Byrds
Continued from: TRUE BLUE - The Quarterback & the Cheerleader Remember how I said that, with every year, I became less and less a member...
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Bella Dancer
- Jan 11, 2021
- 15 min
TRUE BLUE: The Quarterback and the Cheerleader
By about April or May of this past year, I started hearing more and more people pray for 2020 to be done. They kept clinging by their...
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Bella Dancer
- Dec 21, 2020
- 10 min
I DARE YOU - My 20th RebirthDay
Twenty years ago this morning, I thought I'd be waking up like usual. I thought I'd scribble my thoughts into my journal for fifteen...
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Bella Dancer
- Oct 31, 2020
- 16 min
A LOVE LETTER TO A FEW OF MY BULLIES - As We Approach 50
Do you have any idea how often I think about you all? The ruts in my neural pathways keep your voices on auto-repeat just over my...
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Bella Dancer
- Oct 28, 2020
- 12 min
READY OR NOT, HERE HE COMES: Boys, Mosquitos, and A Big, Puffy Couch
As it turns out, my classmates did not get bored with the game of hunting me through the hallways, no matter how much I tried to ignore...
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Bella Dancer
- Oct 25, 2020
- 7 min
A WEEK IN THE LIFE A PSYCHO-SLUT: Part 2 - TGIFF
Continued from: My Adventures on Monday-Thursday As stated last time: If the title didn't warn you that this one's about to get ugly,...
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Bella Dancer
- Oct 25, 2020
- 14 min
A WEEK IN THE LIFE OF A PSYCHO-SLUT: Rumors, Labels & Violence
If the title didn't warn you that this one's about to get ugly, then you must not know me very well yet. If you have school shooter...
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Bella Dancer
- Oct 18, 2020
- 16 min
GLOBAL WARMING: The Future Problem Solvers Solve Some Problems
I'm going to let you in today, right up close where I live. You may not want to know me this intimately. You may not want to know this...
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Bella Dancer
- Oct 18, 2020
- 7 min
WAITING.
(flashy light warning) Spring 1987 14 years old Waiting. Waiting. Lying on my bed again, staring up at the ceiling, waiting to hear the...
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Bella Dancer
- Oct 17, 2020
- 11 min
JONATHAN.
Shhh...Can you keep a secret? You have to sit really close for this one. There are parts that I'll only be able to tell you with my hand...
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Bella Dancer
- Oct 17, 2020
- 9 min
I GO TO A FUNERAL - And Come Home With a Date
“…And yet, to learn of kindness after so much unkindness, to understand that a little girl with more courage than she knew, would find...
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Bella Dancer
- Oct 16, 2020
- 15 min
HERE AND GONE - Mommy & Me
Summer 1977 Four years old Mommy and I go outside to check on the big garden. We're already starting to get beets, carrots and peas, but...
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Bella Dancer
- Oct 6, 2020
- 11 min
ONE WAY OR ANOTHER - A Subtle Slice of the MeToo Problem
Continued from: TAKE THE SHOT--A Tomboy Cheerleader’s First Crush & Burn I hope you read the title, because that's what we're going to be...
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Bella Dancer
- Oct 5, 2020
- 10 min
TAKE THE SHOT - A Tomboy Cheerleader's First Crush & Burn
Spring 1986 Seventh Grade I’ve done it! This is the 80s, man. Girls no longer have to wait for a boy to make the first move. Forget...
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