Bella Dancer
MOVING ON: A Crucifix, Sandalwood & Lemon Lysol
We've finally made it to the last chapter of this series about #MeToo, rape and death threats, violence, psychological abuse,...
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Apr 6, 2021
- 4 min
JOY AS A WEED - It's Everywhere!
On the subject of JOY today: One of my friends: ...definitely worth cultivating. And it takes a lotta freakin' work. Our other friend:...
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Bella Dancer
- Feb 17, 2021
- 14 min
BABY BELLY DANCER: My First Belly Dance Class
Okay. I'm finally ready to tell you what happened after a coin and fringe bra literally saved my life. Many of the references I make in...
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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 2, 2021
- 14 min
MY RAWR-ING 2020 IN REVIEW: And a Shameless Request for Patronage
RAWRing '20s Grrrl New Years Eve 2020 EDIT: Dain Bramage & Covid strike again! Huh...so apparently it was actually the first day of the...
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Bella Dancer
- Dec 1, 2020
- 8 min
I AM FORGETFUL LUCY-LIGHT: The Fuzzy Impressionist Paintings That Are My Memory
Lucy Whitmore - Forgetful Lucy from 50 First Dates: Although one of my most significant injuries is to my left temporal lobe, I don’t...
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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 25, 2020
- 12 min
KARATE KIDS: How Body Painting Gone Wrong Led Me to the Dojo
April 2005 32 years old He’s cast me in the role of Kali, the Indian Goddess of Destruction, among other things. (1, 2) This has been a...
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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 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 1, 2020
- 18 min
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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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 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
- 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
- Sep 9, 2019
- 4 min
The Treasure Chest (a faerie's tale)
A comely fisherwoman rowed her boat out into the bay at dawn one morning. Down, down, deep down, a flash of light caught her eye. Through...
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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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