Bella Dancer
ELEMENTAL WATER: Domain of the Mind; Realm of Story
The Element of Water And That Which Contains It One droplet. A lily-pad pond. The glassy lake--or 10,000. The jagged-smooth...
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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 26, 2022
- 15 min
BANNED FROM IG - I Must Be Doing Something Right
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. ~Krishna Morti Said to me by my gamer friends while...
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Bella Dancer
- Feb 24, 2022
- 1 min
RUSSIA & UKRAINE: Why I Write What I Write
This is why I write about childhood bullying. "OMGawwwwwd, it happened so long ago. Get over it!" Yup, it did. And it's all the same...
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Bella Dancer
- Feb 23, 2022
- 19 min
FAWN, FREEZE, FIGHT, FLEE - How I Escaped That Rape Threat
If the title didn’t warn you how ugly things have been around here these few weeks, I can’t get much more explicit. Yet we're about...
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Bella Dancer
- Feb 22, 2022
- 22 min
"YOU OWE ME" - Sexual Coercion, Expectations & Assault
Continued from: JERRY-RIGGING - Building My First Set of Armor BUILDING ARMOR - The Hard Way THE DAMSEL - Predators, Instincts, “Nice...
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Bella Dancer
- Feb 3, 2022
- 20 min
BUILDING ARMOR - THE HARD WAY: Some Hard-Hitting Lessons From My HIS-Story
Continued from: THE FIGHTERS - Gawking at My First Heavy Weapons Tournament DAMSEL OUT OF DIS-DRESS - My First Time in Heavy Armor...
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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 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
- Jul 11, 2021
- 18 min
DRAMA-QUEEN - How I Bombed As a Theater Major, Yet Acquired a Key to Great Acting
“And what do you want to be when you grow up?” Adults love asking kids that question. I find myself parroting it to children I meet. Some...
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Bella Dancer
- Jan 7, 2021
- 7 min
"DO YOU SEE ROADBLOCKS OR OPPORTUNITIES?" the abled male said to the disabled female.
I love when the abled attempt to use their simple metaphors on the disabled, and then run in a cricket-chirping fashion when we respond....
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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 6, 2020
- 11 min
GETTING AWAY SCOT-FREE - But Not From the Church
Continued from: THOSE SUMMER NIGHTS - Sneaking Around with Badboys at Dusk July 1986 13 years old …terrified I’ll hear the too-familiar...
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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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