Are you a Leaky Lena? (updated June 26th, 2014) “Is this then what happens to woman? She wants to perpetually spill herself away. All her instinct as a woman – the eternal nourisher of children, of men, of society – demands that she give. Her time, her energy, her creativeness drain out into these channels … Read more
Confessions of a Dirty Shoe Dancer “You did not come to sit on the sidelines and watch. You came to dance.” – Veronica Hay, Magazine of People and Possibilities Several months after I moved to Vancouver Island (back in 2010), I went to my second hip hop dance class in Victoria. Things didn’t go … Read more
Updated March 31st, 2015 Without Focus and Follow-Through, You May Be Just Spinning Your Wheels “Once upon a time there was a chameleon. It’s owner, to keep it warm, placed it on a piece of scotch plaid. It died of exhaustion.” – Jean Cocteau, 1919 I was at a traffic safety conference years ago and one … Read more