When I was 10, I auditioned for the National Ballet School. There were 4 of us in this particular audition – myself, a girl I barely remember with fuzzy brown hair, a boy, and then The Girl. The Girl who danced like she had angel wings. I’d been dancing for 5 years and my teachers [...]
Tag Archives: inspiration
Keep dancing your dance (& other things I wish I could have told a stranger 13 yrs ago)
January 3, 2012 – 6:23 am
The Sunday Hug: Motivation
October 31, 2010 – 9:40 am
Because sometimes, life is hard and you just need a hug. This is the Inaugural Sunday Hug. I thought of it at 7am this morning and fell in love with it. Yes, you can now come here every Sunday and get a hug. Rock on. I was feeling a teensy* bit discouraged yesterday. *That is [...]
Some beauty for your Thursday afternoon…
October 28, 2010 – 3:32 pm
This is going to be the world’s fastest post, before I head back to the studio. I’m really happy with the progress that I’m making, so I thought I’d pop in here and share some of the evolution of my latest pieces. The one above is so close to being done – it’s really just [...]
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 [...]
BOO YAH! Hannah’s classes are paid for. Now we just need shoes.
July 30, 2010 – 2:11 pm
Life, you are brilliant. Of the $1000ish we need for Hannah to start dancing again, we’ve got $811. This means that her dance classes are completely paid for. She is officially going back to dance. Thank you, thank you, thank you. To everyone who has donated, shared, sent love and supported, I am immensely grateful. [...]
A thank you from Hannah
July 23, 2010 – 3:45 pm
Hannah really wanted to share how grateful she is for all of your support, and so I asked her to write a little something to share with you. She’s written it so beautifully, that’s about all the introduction it needs. Take it away, Hannah. “I’ve tried to write this message a few times over [...]
“I’ve never been so excited to be alive.”
July 16, 2010 – 5:00 pm
When I posted about Hannah’s story on Thursday evening, I was not expecting to have raised $300 within 6 hours. I knew that y’all were a generous, wonderful bunch, but you have floored even me. But you know what? It is so not about the money. Well, not completely. I mean, it’s a really awesome [...]
Helping Hannah Dance
July 15, 2010 – 5:28 pm
A girl with a secret dream. Hannah was one of the first people I met on the island. It took us a little while to get to know each other (I was still feeling pretty hermit-ey when we first met) but within a couple of months we’d bonded over a shared love of dance and [...]
