Lovely, lovely people, I am so pleased to say that I have already passed the halfway mark in raising my tuition money to France. HALF WAY! Can we just pause for a second, take a deep breath, and appreciate how epic that is? Because all of that happened in 3 days. Three days. Dude. Rock [...]
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Why you should never, ever give up.
January 11, 2011 – 10:15 am
I was writing a letter to my email list this morning, telling them about the ways they can help me go to France and how I’ll be donating a portion of the proceeds to the Creative Spirit Art Centre and trying to explain why that’s important to me. I realized though that none of you [...]
An unconventional career
December 15, 2010 – 6:02 pm
As this year winds down, I’ve been thinking a lot about my plans and goals for the year ahead. I’m not really a goals-oriented person, per say – I find it hard to stick to them – but I am thinking about the directions I want to move in. It seems that when I wasn’t [...]
The Sunday Hug: Forgotten Dreams
December 12, 2010 – 11:03 am
Fabeku wrote a fabulous post the other day about slowly forgetting about the things that light you up. For him, it was dance. It reminded me that I hadn’t been to dance class in 5 weeks. For 9 years, I didn’t dance. I got sick, and that was it, over. God, how I loved to [...]
What it means to have passion
November 30, 2010 – 2:32 pm
Passion. We say the word and envision sparks, desire, an all-consuming burning love for something. We picture drama and fireworks. True, sometimes passion can be like that. It’s all over the movies, so it must happen sometimes, right? But what does it mean to be passionate about something? What does it mean to be passionate [...]
Why art is so damned important.
November 22, 2010 – 3:00 am
If you’re reading this blog, you’re probably a fairly intelligent person. You’ve got big hopes, big dreams. You probably want to change the world.You might have a business of your own, or dream of having a business. Maybe you just have a dream of writing a novel, or moving to Europe, or taking up guitar. [...]
There Are No Specialness Fairies (or “Why you can live the life you want”)
October 22, 2010 – 7:42 am
Lately, I’ve been having the same conversation again and again. For some reason, some people who know me think that I’m special. That I have some kind of superpower, or luxury, or something, that has made it possible for me to live my life on my own terms. That somehow, the Specialness Fairies have decided [...]
Ready to dance.
August 30, 2010 – 8:58 am
I think this picture pretty much says it all. We went and bought Hannah’s dance clothes and shoes on Saturday. Everything fit perfectly, first try. She looked beautiful. She looked like a dancer. She felt like a dancer. She couldn’t stop bouncing for joy, and the owner of the store couldn’t stop laughing to see [...]
An update on Hannah.
August 18, 2010 – 7:44 am
Everyone, thank you so much for all of your kind words yesterday. So much wisdom, so much generosity, so much support and love and goodness. You guys rock my world. But things haven’t been so good in Hannah’s world the last week. Her boyfriend lost his job. Money that was supposed to be set aside [...]
Brainstorm with me?
August 4, 2010 – 11:16 am
So there’s been a bit of a misunderstanding about how much money we need to pay for Hannah’s dance classes. I completely blame myself. I should have done some double checking. But what it means is that we need another $485, instead of $237. I’m running out of ideas. I’ve still got the prints for [...]
