Musings on Dance, Food, Geek Stuff
I did my first indoor rock climb using my own gear today! It felt really good getting back into rock climbing at Planet Granite. Climbing with your shoes and a harness that I chose feels quite different than using rented gear. I look forward to breaking in both, and feeling more comfortable wearing them. Right now…
Okay, not really. I'm actually far from tired of eating paleo / low-carb. I enjoy my simple diet rules and look forward to my meals. But I am getting physically tired while following my paleo diet. I have been noticing lately a mid-afternoon energy drop that is not optimal during the workday. Today I could…
Here's my solo jazz team the Shimmy Shakers doing our thing at Camp Hollywood XX last weekend. I could not be more proud of the work that my team presented. I'm so fortunate I got to work with these fine folks and share what we created in Los Angeles and DC. I'm also super proud…
I’m drinking a V8 tomato juice for the first time in years while on a short flight. And a flood of food memories suddenly pour in. When I was in college, I didn’t do a great job at feeding myself. I was living on my own for the first time in an apartment close to…
I just got home from a long weekend at the Camp Hollywood lindy hop camp in Los Angeles. To be perfectly honest, I have not been a fan of Camp Hollywood. In the past, I found the vibe superficial, clique-ish, and borderline sexist. I felt isolated and inadequate as a dancer at the event. I remember…
Photo Credit : Maren Marien Henes Finally home after a fantastic trip to DC for the 10th annual International Lindy Hop Championships. I've been coming to ILHC for many, many years, and it never gets old for me. ILHC brings together lots of things I cherish — being around some of the most talented dancers…
Yesterday I competed with my team the Shimmy Shakers at the 10th annual International Lindy Hop Championships. I have a lot of feelings, but mostly just feeling grateful and blessed to be here and be a part of this global community. We were one of a slew of awesome competitors in the brand new solo…
Tomorrow morning I'm off to Washington DC to compete with my team the Shimmy Shakers at the International Lindy Hop Championships! I'm so excited to share our routine with the world, which is fun, dynamic, slick and weird. And I get to do it with a swell gaggle of shakers. More soon…
The New York Times has an inspired write up about Quaker activist Benjamin Lay, “You’ll Never Be as Radical as This 18th-Century Quaker Dwarf.” It really speaks to my condition, as Friends say: “Lay, a hunchback as well as a dwarf, was the world’s first revolutionary abolitionist. Against the common sense of the day, when slavery…
Spam musubi is one of my favorite guilty pleasures from the Islands. Carb-loaded, greasy, salty, and sticky, spam musubi just make me happy. I was invited to my friend Michael's annual birthday pie extravaganza, where the cost of entry is a homemade pie. It's a fantastic celebration of everything pie, with people going all out…