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2024 Intentions: More Stamina, Skate Travel and Video Essays

Posted on January 10, 2024January 10, 2024 by

I don’t tend to set “resolutions” for the New Year, which feels a bit too confining and unrealistic. Instead I do like to set “intentions” to give me direction and motivation. These are more like things I am very interested in and want to explore, but without set quantitative goals or deadlines. So not “I…

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Who’s Yehoodi: The Story of a (Mostly) Online Dance Community

Posted on January 8, 2024January 1, 2025 by

Well I finally finished the oral history of Yehoodi.com, a project I started back in May 2023. It’s not perfect, but I think it does a good job of highlighting the many ways that Yehoodi touched people’s lives over the past 25 years. This was the biggest personal writing project I had taken on for…

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2023 Highlights: Tokyo Disney, Closing Yehoodi, Skating, Knitting, Baking

Posted on December 31, 2023August 13, 2024 by

Japan Disneyland Bucket List Trip The biggest highlight of the year for me was getting to go on a bucket list trip to Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea last May. Getting to visit the two best Disney theme parks was a dream come true. Of course, I had a lot of other lovely adventures in Tokyo,…

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Skate Photo Shoot at 6th Ave

Posted on December 28, 2023December 28, 2023 by

I was honored to be asked to be a subject in this journalism student Tam’s photo essay on skating that she was preparing this month. Tam was so fun to work with, bringing enthusiasm, technical expertise, and flexibility to the shoot. Excited to see her final project. Here’s her pics of me that she shared.

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The Joys of Being a Newbie

Posted on December 11, 2023December 28, 2023 by

Yesterday I had the pleasure of being a complete newb at a dance! Okay, maybe not a total newb, but definitely felt out of my depth attempting to lead the waltz at The Great Dickens Christmas Fair.I did fine with my friend Aurelia Santos for the first waltz, which had set sections and moves that…

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Just a Normal Sunday at the 6th Avenue Skating Place

Posted on November 20, 2023November 20, 2023 by

I get to the 6th Avenue Skating Place a little after noon. The spot is already hopping with skaters and music, courtesy of my friend Alex and their very loud bluetooth speaker. A newer skater Cassidy is there and she wants to work on “the Smurf.” So we review that footwork and drill it together….

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Halloween 2023 as “Cake Week” from the Great British Bake Off!

Posted on November 3, 2023November 3, 2023 by

This was in some ways one of my easiest costumes, but also my most performative: “Cake Week” on “The Great British Bake Off!” I was a little stymied about what I wanted to be this Halloween, until the week before. And then it came to me in a flash: I wanted to be a baker…

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Being Your Fullest Self at Work: a Tuba, a Haiku and Roller Skates

Posted on October 6, 2023October 6, 2023 by

This week I fulfilled a dream: skating for my colleagues at work. This was the culmination of a conversation I had with my co-worker Debbie about six months ago, where I asked her, “What would it take for us to host an open mic?” She replied, “Someone to organize it.” Six months later, I’m in…

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Who’s Yehoodi? Seven Stories about Yehoodi’s Legacy and Impact

Posted on September 26, 2023January 1, 2025 by

As I try to summarize 25 years of Yehoodi, I realize that Yehoodi has been a lot of things to a lot of people over the years. Yehoodi has been…. But that seems a little backwards. Yehoodi has always been its community, the many thousands of lindy hoppers who have connected through this site, in…

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Fun Times with the Roller Rangers at Dreamforce 2023!

Posted on September 15, 2023September 15, 2023 by

Super fun time being a “Roller Ranger” at the Dreamforce convention with a bunch of my skate peeps last night. We were basically roaming entertainers on the plaza of Chase Center, creating a fun ambiance for Dreamforce attendees, on their way to see the Foo Fighters play in the the arena. I got to do…

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