Car Adventures, Part One - So what was the narrative that went with the past 36 hours of tweets and status updates? Here's the story. (read more)

New Site, New Job Hunt, Same Energy - Check out the new blog site over at blog.cayswann.com plus hear about the latest new job hunt. (read more)

Welcoming the New Year - The recap of why 2013 was so bizarre, some of the latest status reports for 2014, and some thoughts about organization. (read more...)

All The Teachers, All My Thankfulness - In the space of three years, I went from full-time dance student to part-time instructor. When I took the time to tally all the instructors who got me here, I was amazed at the list. I am *SO* thankful for all my teachers. (read more...)

Filling in Some of the Blanks - I've been logging some of the adventures in my life in other locations. So here's a set of breadcrumbs and summary information about CaySwann Dance - my Dance Teacher Blog, Photos from the Past Several Months, Projects and more Projects, and New Work. (read more...)

My General Skills Experience - In some meager way, I try to sum up an intensive dance week workshop experience. (read more...)

My father died suddenly on Sunday. He'd gone into the hospital on Saturday morning for a sharp pain in his back, thinking "maybe it's just a kidney stone." They diagnosed an aneurysm in his aorta (pressing on his kidney, which was how he felt it) and scheduled the cardiac work-up for the next morning, intending surgery to put in a stent. The ( Read more... )

Outing the Brain Weasels - Trigger warning: discussion of eating disorder and weight loss issues. But here's the thing: I'm discussing this to admit that although these brain weasels exist, they are not allowed to only have a secret hold over my brain. Also, MATH is on my side and I'm more muscular and awesome than I thought. Take that. (read more ( Read more... )

Uuffda - Exercise makes muscles sore. And in other news, water is wet. What a lovely workout my day included yesterday: a dance lesson, an evaluation of the stretch band routines I've been working on, an attempt to workout with a DVD, and a total of 5.51 miles logged. Whew. Tired today.... (read more...)

Approaches in the New Year - After a week of thinking about my theme word for 2013, FOCUS, I thought it might be nice to recap how well this approach has been working for me. I like the improvments and accomplishments I made this past week. (read more...)