Memoir Table of Contents
THE ISLANDS OF MISFIT TOYS
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BULLYING
THE WORST THING I EVER DID AS A KID - On Reaching For the One-Ring
CAT SCRATCH FEVER - My Oldest Obsession & Oxygen Mask
TOMORROW...MAYBE... - Annie, Acting, Singing & Dance
IN THE TRENCHES - A Tale About Being "All In This Together"
LOVE BOMBS FROM HELL - The Unenviable Arts of Learning Hatred
THE BASE: SOLID GOLD REBEL - How the Class Nerd Became a Cheerleader
JUNIOR HIGH & HIGH SCHOOL: BULLYING + BOYS
--SEE BELOW: SEX, LOVE & VIOLENCE - MY EARLIEST EXPERIENCES
SSDD: NOT JUST FOR KIDS ANYMORE
MAKING OF AN 8-WEEK WONDER - Adult-Sized Mean Girls & Slut-Shaming
EVERYTHING WAS BEAUTIFUL AT THE BALLET - I Mean Belly - No, Bella
SCROLL ON, CITIZEN - A Response To Dicks
SURFACING - The Hidden Injury in a Career That is All About *Show*
THE GREAT "WHITE BELLY DANCER" WAR OF 2014 - And How It Finished Off My Career
IF *I'M* NOT WHITE ENOUGH?! - Then Yeah, Houston, We Have a Problem
IF *I'M* NOT WHITE ENOUGH?! - Part 2: A French Canadian in MN vs. CO
WELL, CRAP, NOW I'M TOO WHITE - Part 3: My CON-Fusing Search for Home
BEAUTIFUL, SEXY, SILLY, SAVVY: Unearthing Missing Black Muses & Founders
THE MISFIT ARCHIPELAGO
DOGS, CATS & THREAD SPOOLS - Complex PTSD on Frontal Lobe Damage
HUSH LITTLE GIRL - Breaking the Choke Chain Around Trauma & Abuse
GLADIATRIX - My Dreams of Being a Glamazon Warrior Woman
KARATE KIDS - How Body Painting Gone Wrong Led Me To Martial Arts
A LOVE LETTER TO MY BULLIES - As We Approach 50
--SEE WRITING: SHE-ROES, VILLAINS & SIDECHICKS - The Characters That Made Me
SEX, LOVE & VIOLENCE
DOGS, CATS & THREAD SPOOLS - Complex PTSD on Frontal Lobe Damage
HUSH LITTLE GIRL - Breaking the Choke Chain Around Trauma & Abuse
SHHHH... - The Body Knows When and Where To Go
SCROLL ON, CITIZEN - A Response To Dicks
A MULTIPOTENTIALITE HSP - I am NOT a Specializer - In Anything
A SENSITIVE ORCHID IN A DANDELION WORLD - HSP, PTSD & TBI
DEC 18: ON THIS NIGHT 20 YEARS AGO - The Musician & the Dancer
AN ABLED MALE THINKS HE WANTS TO DATE ME - If Only I'd STFU
SECRETS THAT LIE HIDDEN - Mary Wigman & Expressionist Dance 2
--SEE WRITING: SHE-ROES, VILLAINS & SIDECHICKS - The Characters That Made Me
MY EARLIEST EXPERIENCES
TRAPPED INDOORS WITH MY SKELETONS - Getting Repressed Memories Back Amidst Isolation
TAKE THE SHOT - A Tomboy Cheerleader's First Crush & Burn
ONE WAY OR ANOTHER - A Subtle Slice of the MeToo Problem
THOSE SUMMER NIGHTS - Sneaking Around With Badboys At Dusk
GETTING AWAY SCOTT FREE - But Not From the Church
I GO TO A FUNERAL - And Come Home With a Date
JONATHAN - The Boy Who Changed Everything
WAITING - For News About Jonathan
GLOBAL WARMING - Brainiacs, Boys & Revenge
A WEEK IN THE LIFE OF A PSYCHO-SLUT - Rumors, Labels & Violence
PSYCHO-SLUT PART 2 - What Happened on Friday
READY OR NOT, HERE HE COMES - Boys, Mosquitos, and a Big, Puffy Couch
A LOVE LETTER TO MY BULLIES - As We Approach 50
HIGH SCHOOL & COLLEGE
TRUE BLUE - The Quarterback and the Cheerleader
CINDER-BELLA - Ballrooms, Ballplayers, Boulders & Byrds
HOLDING OUT FOR A HERO - Or At Least Graduation
JONATHAN - Reprise.
BE-FRIE - ST-NDS - Purging, Keeping, Losing, Releasing
DYE JOB: How a Coin & Fringe Bra Literally Saved My Life
DANCE WITH THE RED DRAGON - A Love Story That Almost Was
SCA - MY MEDIEVAL REENACTMENT DAYS
WHEN IRISH EYES ARE... - A Viking, An Irishman and a Belly Dancer Walk Into A Bar
TAKE THE HIT - Asking Fighters to Critique My Gladiatrix
C-PTSD
THE BIG BLUE BEAST - Weeding 18 Years of Paperwork
SCROLL ON, CITIZEN - A Response To Dicks
DOGS, CATS & THREAD SPOOLS - Complex PTSD on Frontal Lobe Damage
HUSH LITTLE GIRL - Breaking the Choke Chain Around Trauma & Abuse
CAT SCRATCH FEVER - My Oldest Obsession & Oxygen Mask
UP IS DOWN - Escaping the World of NO
HERE AND GONE - Mommy & Me
I DARE YOU: My 20th RebirthDay
I AM ANTI-NEO - A Poem About Falling
DRAMA QUEEN - That Time I Bombed My Theater Major
STRUGGLE - Watching Nature Persevere
9/11 - 20 YEARS AGO - How Trauma Changes the Way We Tell Stories
"What is your Complex-PTSD from?"
--SEE SEX, LOVE & VIOLENCE
--SEE CHILDHOOD BULLYING
--SEE BRAIN INJURY
--SEE BODILY INJURY
"What do you do to heal it?"
--SEE ALL THE OTHER CATEGORIES
THE ARTS OF SELF-DEFENSE
EMBODYING THE CREED - Honor, Respect & Jerry-Rigging Learning Disabilities
SCROLL ON, CITIZEN - A Response To Dicks
A SENSITIVE ORCHID IN A DANDELION WORLD - HSP, PTSD & TBI
KARATE KIDS - How Body Painting Gone Wrong Led Me To Martial Arts
"DO YOU SEE ROADBLOCKS OR OPPORTUNITIES?" - The Abled Mansplainer Asked
HOLDING OUT FOR A HERO - Or At Least Graduation
AFFIRMATIONS - From Acceptance to the Zero Point Potential of Creation
"What inspired you to become a martial artist?"
--SEE CHILDHOOD BULLYING
--SEE SEX, LOVE & VIOLENCE
MY OBSESSION WITH THE GLADIATRIX
ENTERING THE ARENA - Gladiators Hijack My Life
GLADIATRIX - "Gladia-what?!" Female Gladiator
TWISTED HISTORY & MYTH - Adventures in World-Building
STAMINA - Spectacled Book-Nerds Teach Me To Fight
TAKE THE HIT - Asking Fighters to Critique My Gladiatrix