The books I read in 2016 - some great stuff ( Read more... )

After my birthday week has drawn to a close, I continue to revel in all the happy dance memories.

( Yay, Dancing! )

Terpsichore at the Tower, Cynnabar’s local dance, event is always a fantastic time, and this year was no exception. So much goodness!

( ”Yay, Terp! )

Just got back from one of my favorite annual dance weekends, Step Spritely. I was particularly delighted to make it this year, after missing it at the last minute last year just after my Mom was diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer. Making it this year felt like a turning point after that saga, and not just a return to the status quo. Cassandra joined ( Read more... )

So happy to say goodbye to 2015 and hoping 2016 is much better. Still, there are a lot of great books on this list, even though there are also many meh ones ( Read more... )

(in reverse order - December through January ( Read more... )

We had so much fun getting together at Darius and Lynette’s house in Brantford, Ontario to dance Saint Paul’s Cathedral (and get it taped) last year, that we decided to get together again! This time, the goals were to do the non-Jamie verses choreographed by me, Gwommy, and Rosina, to get some video footage of other dances, (like Tesara!), and, ( Read more... )

This was the third Saturday of November, and my third SCA event this month. At least this one was local (although that tends also to mean much more work as a member of hosting group)! So, of course, we also had to coordinate around U-Con, Marcus’ chess tournament in Ann Arbor and Cassandra’s friend’s birthday party. Whee! And it was also our 17th ( Read more... )

Having no teaching commitment, I had decided not to go to Crystal Ball this year, given my other SCA commitments this month. That changed in mid October when I was asked if I could come and teach Fulgente Stella and Gracca Amorosa. That’s all it took to sway me! It is dance, after all, and the oldest dance event in our kingdom at that!

( ”Yay, dancing! )

Northshield Dance Seminar XXII. What a great beginning to my crazy month of SCA (mostly) dance! I am thrilled to see this event come back. The last one was in 2006, and Terpsichore very nearly caught up to it in numbers, since NDS was dead for so many years. Since it was intentionally a sort of danse macabre held on Halloween weekend, does that ( Read more... )