Bella Dancer
ELEMENTAL FIRE: Domain of the Heart; Realm of Passion & Emotion
The Element of Fire Along With Its Fuel Fire is raw. It can be rude. Biting. Searing. Blazing! It flicks and licks and whips. It is...
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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
- Jul 16, 2022
- 14 min
VIOLENT FEMMES - The Warrior/Princess Binary
Continued from: --A YIN-YANG RABBIT HOLE - If you haven't read this sex, language & violence content warning with its (non)binary...
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Bella Dancer
- Jul 12, 2022
- 16 min
ROMANCE *IS* FANTASY - Childish Dreams vs. Heroic Aspirations
Continued from: --A YIN-YANG RABBIT HOLE - If you haven't read this sex, language & violence content warning with its (non)binary...
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Bella Dancer
- Mar 27, 2022
- 13 min
THE ALTARS OF LOVE & VOMITUS WEALTH: From Solstice to Equinox Part 2
Continued from: SOLSTICE IN THE UNDERTHING; EQUINOX AT SPRING: Making, Breaking. Tending, Mending. ...at the ceremony, one of the gals...
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Bella Dancer
- Mar 21, 2022
- 23 min
DROWNING - When the Rum Runs Through
This is NOT a safe space. If you're new around here, please take note of the titles. Because we don't pull punches and use coded...
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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 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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Bella Dancer
- Nov 30, 2019
- 7 min
BLACK FRIDAY NEEDS A MAKEOVER - Gratitude, Greed & Self-Love
What in THEEEE bleep?!? Screenshot of Bitmoji's trending suggestions for today: I am genuinely horrified, especially considering what all...
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Bella Dancer
- Jan 26, 2019
- 8 min
SCROLL ON, CITIZEN - My Response to Dicks
Welcome to my creative recovery--the peeking out of a few glittered toes from the shadows. I've been lurking here a long time, playing...
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