Bella Dancer
HUNTING FOR "YES" - Gift of the Thistle
From: WHEN THE UNIVERSE GIVES ME "NO" - I Hunt For the "YES" I drove all the way out there for nothing. Twice. It's almost a half-hour...
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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!"
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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
- Apr 12, 2022
- 12 min
THE HUMAN HAND CAN ACTUALLY BLOOM - Mary Wigman & Expressionist Dance 4
Continued from: MAYA: DANCE, DRUMS, DREAMS - My First Time Dancing Around the Fire And from: Mary Wigman & Expressionist Dance Part 1 -...
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Bella Dancer
- Jan 17, 2022
- 20 min
MAYA: DANCE, DRUMS, DREAMS - My First Time Dancing Around the Fire
Continued from - My First SCA Event: THE FIRST NIGHT - Halfdan Was There THE FIGHTERS - Gawking at My First Heavy Weapons Tournament...
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Bella Dancer
- Dec 25, 2021
- 15 min
THE UNCONQUERABLE LIGHT - Christmastime with Lindsey Stirling
My Lindsey Stirling Tribute series would not be complete without odes to her Christmas album, Warmer in the Winter. My musical Muse IS a...
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Bella Dancer
- Nov 16, 2021
- 4 min
'BIRD OUTTA THE CAGE - Fall Frolics With Lindsey Stirling - Part 8
MY JOURNEY WITH LINDSEY STIRLING: --THE MUSE IN THE MOON: A Thank You to My Muse & My Supporters --BRAVE ENOUGH: To Fight in the Arena &...
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Bella Dancer
- Nov 16, 2021
- 6 min
MASTER OF TIDES, MISTRESS OF PLAY: How Lindsey Stirling Holds My Heart - Part 7
MY JOURNEY WITH LINDSEY STIRLING: --THE MUSE IN THE MOON: A Thank You to My Muse & My Supporters --BRAVE ENOUGH: To Fight in the Arena &...
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Bella Dancer
- Nov 13, 2021
- 12 min
BEYOND THE VEIL: Dancing With Shadows & Light - My Lindsey Stirling Journey 6
Continued from MY JOURNEY WITH LINDSEY STIRLING: --THE MUSE IN THE MOON: A Thank You to My Muse & My Supporters --BRAVE ENOUGH: To Fight...
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Bella Dancer
- Nov 10, 2021
- 17 min
BEHIND THE VEIL: Hiding Things Underground - My Lindsey Stirling Journey 5
Continued from MY JOURNEY WITH LINDSEY STIRLING: --THE MUSE IN THE MOON: A Thank You to My Muse & My Supporters --BRAVE ENOUGH: To Fight...
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Bella Dancer
- Oct 19, 2021
- 10 min
BRAVE ENOUGH: To Fight in the Arena & Shatter Shackles - My Lindsey Stirling Journey 2
Continued from: THE MUSE IN THE MOON - My Journey with Lindsey Stirling Synchronicity has been hard at work playing with me of late....
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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 23, 2021
- 7 min
GLADIATRIX: "Gladia-what?!" - Female Gladiator
When I wrote my Persephone novel, I had originally planned it to be a one-off. Hahahahahahahahaha…this is me we’re talking about. You...
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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
- Aug 12, 2021
- 5 min
FROLICKING FOXES - Follow Your Bliss
RedFox 1 & 2 with GoldiFox It's trash day. Sometimes I take it out in the middle of the day. Sometimes at night. Sometimes in the morning...
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Bella Dancer
- Jun 13, 2021
- 8 min
AFFIRMATIONS - From Acceptance to the Zero Point Potential of Creation
Image by Dennis Nejtek I really wanted to dance tonight, but my body is not ready. It's too busy healing a new tooth implant and...
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Bella Dancer
- Jun 5, 2021
- 9 min
SALOME 1 - Strippers & Satins & Silks, Oh My!
CONTINUED FROM: SHE-ROS, VILLAINS & SIDECHICKS - The Characters That Made Me Image by Beth Shell If you've followed my adventures in the...
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