Bella Dancer
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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
- Sep 13, 2022
- 20 min
WHEN THE UNIVERSE GIVES ME "NO" - I Hunt For "YES"
I drove all the way out there for nothing. Twice. It's almost a half-hour drive to my dentist's office, which is annoying in itself, but...
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Bella Dancer
- May 10, 2022
- 4 min
INJURED. Again.
Annnnd I'm down again. Out of commission. Back on my ass. One of my old trusty, musty injuries has flared up to the point where there is...
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Bella Dancer
- Mar 2, 2022
- 8 min
NERD ALERT: FAERIE LIGHT TECH - The North Forest By Sunset
I don't know about you, but I need a palate cleanser after all that. Writing so much about my college days, I've been musing about who I...
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Bella Dancer
- Dec 3, 2021
- 13 min
THE SHIRE - Making Garb, Travel Plans, and a Home in the SCA
Continued from: STAMINA - How I Became a History Major THE TREBUCHET - A Siege Engine Leads Me To Medieval Reenactment “Oh, yeah,” the...
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Bella Dancer
- Nov 27, 2021
- 9 min
THE SEARCH BEGINS: Why I'm Still Not Back on FB--excuse me, Meta.
Last month, out of nowhere, one of my favorite people pinged me. "Izzyyyyyy, did you drop off the face of the planet? BTW others on FB...
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Bella Dancer
- Oct 11, 2021
- 10 min
THE MUSE IN THE MOON - My Journey with Lindsey Stirling
Synchronicity has been hard at work playing with me of late. Sometimes She uses strangers to nudge me. Lately she’s been speaking through...
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Bella Dancer
- Oct 1, 2021
- 13 min
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS - Following the White Rabbit (Because I Can't Not)
In The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, the archer gladiatrix from the sticks, has grabbed a backpack and raced into the woods, away from...
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Bella Dancer
- Aug 28, 2021
- 6 min
IN DARKNESS IT SHINES - The Flash of a Drakonian Tale
I only have a single writing snippet of my brief dance with the man who was actually a colossal dragon under his human facade. For many...
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Bella Dancer
- Aug 27, 2021
- 10 min
DANCE WITH THE RED DRAGON - A Love Story That Almost Was
Continued from: TWISTED HISTORY & MYTH - Adventures in Fantasy World-Building ...My bedroom was upstairs behind frosted-glass French...
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Bella Dancer
- Aug 25, 2021
- 8 min
TWISTED HISTORY & MYTH - Adventures in World-Building
Thank you, Canva! Now if only you'd let me search for the artist's name so I could credit it. "Oooh, Izzy, you write novels?" I do. It's...
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Bella Dancer
- Aug 22, 2021
- 15 min
ENTERING THE ARENA - Gladiators Hijack My Life
I sincerely hope it's obvious that, in these posts about gladiators and the Roman arena, we're going to be talking about violence,...
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Bella Dancer
- Jan 7, 2021
- 7 min
"DO YOU SEE ROADBLOCKS OR OPPORTUNITIES?" the abled male said to the disabled female.
I love when the abled attempt to use their simple metaphors on the disabled, and then run in a cricket-chirping fashion when we respond....
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Bella Dancer
- Oct 1, 2020
- 4 min
IZZY & ISADORA - DUNCAN THAT IS: My First Modern Dance Muse
**WRITTEN ON MEDIUM MAY 25, 2020 “I…Isadora…hereby vow…that I will dedicate myself to the pursuit of Art and Beauty, and to the single...
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Bella Dancer
- Oct 1, 2020
- 8 min
*ALSO* A BELLY DANCER: My Jazz Dance Connection
**WRITTEN ON MEDIUM MAY 20, 2020 “She’s not a belly dancer! There’s more Jazz in her than anything.” This was one of the many statements...
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Bella Dancer
- Aug 18, 2019
- 1 min
What Can I Do When I Can't Dance?
Knowing that the retreat would take place in a rustic location in the mountains, I determined to go there as strong as I could. I kept...
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Bella Dancer
- May 9, 2019
- 9 min
Everything Was Beautiful At the Ballet--I mean--BELLY...no. Bella.
Life...Crap...Dookie...Problems...Issssssues that cling to your ass, year after year after decade like dingleberries stuck to the dog's...
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Bella Dancer
- May 6, 2019
- 4 min
MUTTS, HACKS & BASTARDS: The Creative Brain
“Jazz is a mutt...Jazz is a reflection of time. The tradition of jazz is that it always changes. If you stop changing it, if it stops...
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Bella Dancer
- May 6, 2019
- 3 min
THE ARENA: A Constant Theme
5/3/19 A Facebook Post: “If you are not in the arena getting your ass kicked on occasion because you were being brave, I am not...
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Bella Dancer
- Mar 24, 2019
- 7 min
EQUINOX: Failure to Launch
March 21, 2019 I was supposed to be celebrating a monumental triumph today. The official email announcements, the daylong FB partay, a...
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