Bella Dancer
THE MAKING OF AN 8-WEEK WONDER: My Transition to Kismet
Did you know that the movie Iron Will was supposed to have belly dancers in it? Yup, in that big Musher's Banquet scene where Will comes...
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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
- Feb 1, 2021
- 10 min
IF *I'M* NOT WHITE ENOUGH?! - Then Yeah. Houston, We Have a Problem.
Seriously?! I mean, have you not seen my pasty-white butt? Some of you out there actually have. For the rest of you, let me assure...
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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 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
- 10 min
A SENSITIVE ORCHID IN A DANDELION WORLD - HSP, TBI & PTSD
Some people might say that orchids are sooooo much prettier than dandelions. I am not one of them. I adore dandelions. As a kid, it used...
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Bella Dancer
- Oct 11, 2020
- 10 min
A MULTIPOTENTIALITE HSP: I Am NOT a Specializer - In Anything
Multipotentialite: The phrase coined by Emilie Wapnick, referring to people who have a range of callings and jobs over one lifetime. ...
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Bella Dancer
- Oct 8, 2020
- 4 min
"SENSITIVITY" IS NOT A DIRTY WORD: The Highly Sensitive Person
My friend’s son sees colors on a hypersensitive spectrum. When he pointed out and described subtle shades in one of the testing photos, I...
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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 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
- Jul 1, 2020
- 13 min
THE BASE: SOLID GOLD REBEL - Where BellaDancer & The Beast Began
**WRITTEN ON MEDIUM MAY 9, 2020 Second Grade Fall From my bedroom, I hear the front door go ka-thump! I do a little jig. Free! My fifteen...
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Bella Dancer
- Jul 1, 2020
- 13 min
LOVE-BOMBS FROM HELL: The Unenviable Arts of Learning Hatred
Fifth Grade: Music Room Spring “Who just did that?” Ms. Green asks, standing up from the piano bench. “Who just hit that high note?” I...
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Bella Dancer
- Jul 1, 2020
- 13 min
IN THE TRENCHES: A Tale About Being "All In This Together"
4/30/2020 As I sit on my patio after having video-dinner with my parents, I contemplate one of the topics that dominated our...
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Bella Dancer
- Jun 30, 2020
- 14 min
THE WORST THING I EVER DID AS A KID: On Reaching for the One-Ring
Canva: Photo by Juan Pablo Arenas Fourth Grade Fall 1981 There is an open spot in Queenie’s court. Princess is on the outs. (Again.) I...
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Bella Dancer
- Jun 30, 2020
- 15 min
HOW I BECAME (silent)
Sticks & Stones, Love — but words can do deeper damage (especially the ones we strangle in our throats). Ah, the difference 2 years can...
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Bella Dancer
- Jun 29, 2020
- 16 min
I Ain't Blowing Sunshine Up Anybody's Wazoo Today - My Covid 6.5 Boot
3/24/20 - Written for Medium Nope. Not gonna do it. There are plenty of other people to do that right now. Go half a click online and you...
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Bella Dancer
- Jun 29, 2020
- 9 min
"HUSH, LITTLE GIRL" - Breaking the Choke-Chain Around Trauma & Abuse
I have a terrible history of throttling myself with a choke chain in order to protect the not-so-innocent (and thereby myself, in some...
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