Bella Dancer
DYE JOB: How a Coin & Fringe Bra Literally Saved My Life
**WRITTEN ON MEDIUM JUNE 28, 2020 Fall 1991 — In my freshman dorm room just after I started college March 1992 Nineteen years old We...
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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
- Oct 1, 2020
- 8 min
UGLY DUCKLINGS, SWANS & BIRDS OF DIFFERENT FEATHERS: BellaDancer Takes Ballet and Finds Loie Fuller
**WRITTEN ON MEDIUM JUNE 9, 2020 Fall 1991 18 years old I used to think I was good at dance. Now, training among real dancers for the...
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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
- 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
- 9 min
WABI-SABI - THE BEAUTY OF IMPERFECTION: Learning to Love That Person in the Mirror
**WABI-SABI: Which includes the Japanese art of transforming broken things into beauty, like Kintsugi, which repairs broken pottery with...
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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
- 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
- Jul 10, 2019
- 10 min
REMEMBERING HOW TO SAY "YES": My Spain Retreat
We interrupt our normal Izzy broadcast to bring you this update: My World Has Changed. It’s so huge. Too huge to even begin knowing how...
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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
- 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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Bella Dancer
- Jan 21, 2019
- 7 min
Yeah, I Gotcher Value...Write Here!
For a little more than a year, I have been immersed in the study of things I traditionally despise. Things I have long avoided like the...
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Bella Dancer
- May 28, 2018
- 8 min
HIGH ON CRAIC! - Dancing Like I Do
As defined by the Cambridge Dictionary Online: Craic: (kræk) noun: irish english "enjoyable time spent with other people, especially when...
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Bella Dancer
- Mar 31, 2018
- 10 min
Blogging Like Double-Dutch
Happy Tigger Season (spring)! Here’s a blog post I drafted waaaay back in October 2017, rewrote in November and just rediscovered…because...
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Bella Dancer
- May 3, 2017
- 2 min
CAN'T TOUCH THIS - My Self-Lurvy Playlist
I believed them. That was the problem--I believed the wrong people. Instead of listening to the ones who told me I was varied kinds of...
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Bella Dancer
- Apr 22, 2017
- 9 min
BETTER THAN "SORRY" - The Art of Saying "Thank You"
Instead of saying, "I'm sorry," try saying, "Thank you." This concept has been making its way around for some time now, and last year it...
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Bella Dancer
- Apr 16, 2017
- 3 min
ME & MY MIDDLE FINGER FOAMIES - I Attempt to Do the Scary Thing
Well, hells. Is it really the Arena if you keep it quiet in the living room, pretending that you're bold and daring because the curtains...
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Bella Dancer
- Apr 12, 2017
- 1 min
NAKED IN THE ARENA - Vulnerability, Creativity & Bravery
I am NOT editing this post, dammit. For years I have been trying to blog. Correction. I have been failing to blog. There is no try...only...
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