Articulate an opinion, commands the essay prompt. Am I worthy enough to have an opinion? Don't we lift those, wholesale, from bloggers, these days? It's much easier to poke holes in the arguments of others than to make them yourself. Safer, too. Compare quantities A and B. I'm an engineer, dammit, this should be [...]
Tag: dance
Trumpets in the Quart: My First Music Video
I'm a skeptical person. It doesn't take long, when walking into a new situation, for concerns to seed, grow, and flower into doubts regarding the success of a project. It's not that I'm eagerly waiting for people fail--I've just seen it enough times that I've developed a healthy caution for ambitious undertakings. But at the [...]
Hovering in the Wings
Good morning Readers, and welcome back to my dancing life. This weekend was another flurry of events--though no flurries of snow, thankfully. Let's dive right in, shall we? Friday night I DJ-ed another dance, this time the Winter Ball for the SU Ballroom Club. Lead-up to the event had been plagued with issues, and so [...]
Swingin’ New England
Hello readers, and welcome back to my life. This weekend I attended West Coast Swing comp #2: Swingin' New England in Newton, MA. I'm gonna say right now that this re-cap is not going to be as long or detailed as either of us want, on account of the Attack of Mucus Brain I am [...]
A Weekend of Dancing
Hello readers, and welcome back to my life! This past weekend was slightly crazy, even by my standards--and next weekend is going to be even more nuts. Stay tuned. Since I don't want to pick just one event to discuss, let's do ALL of them. On Friday, the SU Ballroom club held a social dance. I [...]
Learning Choreography: Musings and Advice
Hello readers! I hope everyone is having a lovely day. The sun is shining (momentarily), the rain has stopped (fleetingly), and I'm thinking about choreography (perpetually). More specifically, I've been thinking about how I learn and store choreography in my memory. I've been taking ballet classes again after a college-induced hiatus, and lately the studio [...]
Past Performances: Rochester Dances
Good morning and welcome back to my life! This weekend Steve and I had the privilege of performing at a ballroom dance outside of Rochester, NY. I find I don't have that much to say about the show--we performed reasonably well, I remembered to smile, people clapped and cheered. Glad to go, glad it happened. [...]
Flash (Non) Fiction Challenge!
Goooooood morning readers! So today I’m doing something a bit different. Surprise surprise. Writer and hilarious blogger Chuck Wendig issues various flash fiction writing challenges to his readers, and this week it’s a Flash (non) Fiction challenge—write an actual event from your life as a story in 1000 words or less. This makes sense to [...]
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