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When you’re feeling lost, don’t hide. Posted in: Finding a career. August 16th, 2010. Feeling lost is part of being great. If you are forging your own path then you are often lost. Because you have not seen this route before. I wrote my book because I did not have a road map and I am wanted other people to have a road map to do a career like I did. Another good thing is that he lets me do whatever I want with the house. See? I would show you a whole photo of the hutch, but I don’t have a camera....
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Calliope Terpsichore: January 2013
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Friday, January 25, 2013. Marriage: What is It Good For? We might not need it anymore. Do we still want it? Our modern Western paradigm of one partner for life, for love, inflitrates our thoughts and directs our habits and is widely viewed as ideal. We cherish and honor the couple married forty years and beyond, cherish this romantic touchstone and let it, when we encounter it, restore our faith in … something. But faith in what? To believe that magic can happen, and does, and will. Up until that point I...
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Calliope Terpsichore: June 2013
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Wednesday, June 26, 2013. It's Not the Clique You're In. When I was still fairly new to the salsa scene, in 2005, I joined a Yahoo group called Salsacrazies—about twenty folks I assumed were like me: not your stereotypical dancer, age- or ethnicity-wise. All day, the ’Crazies pinged the board, deciding where to meet up and when, bubbling about the prior night’s great dances, and checking in on plans for later in the week. I knew at least three ’Crazies would be there, so I scanned the room for men ...
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Calliope Terpsichore: Surprised by Fear (Part I of II)
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Surprised by Fear (Part I of II). Have you ever been afraid of the dark? In February 2009 I went into the mountains by myself for a few days to finish a draft of my master’s thesis. The thesis was an early iteration of what eventually became a memoir, My People Didn’t Dance. To stay ahead of early darkness, I carried just the perishable groceries up the deck steps and into the house, layered on socks and sweaters, and quickly laced up my hiking boots. On the trail, the sun’s...
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Calliope Terpsichore: September 2012
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Saturday, September 22, 2012. Confessions of a Senior English Language Arts Specialist. Source: www.elvomiter.blogspot.com. It’s not easy being good at grammar. Now, note that I didn’t say it’s not easy becoming. Good at grammar (although that’s also true). I said it’s not easy being. 8221; I imagine him saying, “Are you seriously. Going to call what is so obviously a syncline an anti. But as a grammar expert, I encounter misuse of English every single day, all day long. Oh, Word 2010, even YOU know!
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Calliope Terpsichore: August 2011
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Monday, August 29, 2011. It's Not Me, It's Me. 8220;That dress is so you. 8220;Chatting people up at parties isn’t really me. I hate small talk.”. 8220;What I love about Joe is that he’s so … Joe. Of course you don't want to not be yourself. But which aspects of your personality, style, behavior, and values are fundamental to that self … and which might you fudge? Some of us sometimes make carved-in-stone declarations about who we are. In a post a while back. Too much Approach B. But you let this philoso...
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Calliope Terpsichore: May 2013
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Friday, May 31, 2013. You Don't Have to Run a Marathon! Part II of III. In fact, chances are you shouldn't. The first person to run 26.2 miles was Phidippides, a Greek who traveled from Marathon to Athens, delivered a message, and dropped dead. Or so the story goes. Had I heard about Phidippides sooner, I might have given more thought to tackling the MCM. Why? This is why athletes who have just run a marathon are six times more likely than those who haven’t to come down with a respiratory infection.
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Calliope Terpsichore: August 2012
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Friday, August 31, 2012. Adventures of a Dating Newbie. Or: That Awkward Moment When …. Another excerpt from Unlikely Ecstasy: A Story of Salsa Dancing and Divorce). Then the salsa started and, with sweet attentiveness, he asked me to dance. As we danced (well, as he. For our date, a week later—my first grown-up date! Then he froze, raised his eyebrows in horror, tried the door handle, put his nose to the glass, put his hand to his forehead, and groaned. He’d locked the keys inside the car, he&...8220;Ok...
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Calliope Terpsichore: 9 Reasons to Join the Salsa (or Any) Subculture
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Monday, June 17, 2013. 9 Reasons to Join the Salsa (or Any) Subculture. Photo by Maria Worthen. Everyone wants friends. But this is about more than preference; research (e.g. here. A place to let down your hair. Nothing creates a sense of belonging or community more than being able to share stories that start “Remember when? 8221; and are meaningless to anyone not involved. Remember when Arthur ate the one slice of kiwi off the top of Will’s mixed fruit cup after we’d all been dancing at ...8221; Will cr...
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