I wondered what are you looking for in a dance studio. I have so much training in the dance industry, but very little in technology. This year has been learning about why our business needed to be much more internet savvy and that print is moving into a less important role. It’s all about the website and making it easy for moms to find us when they can etch out that rare alone time to add to their schedule.

I wondered if my training mattered. It feels like many people enroll their kids out of proximity or convenience. I wondered if my priorities to run this business are properly aligned. I believe in great dance training that emphasizes the correct body placement for proper movement is personal and class size should be small to achieve that goal. Am I wrong?

I wondered what parents prioritize. I was thinking I really need to understand everyone’s needs to do my best . I love teaching. For me, it’s part of who I am. I have done it for over 25 years. Thank you Diane Bissell who taught me initially. But directing is a challenge that I long to improve upon. I can only do it with guidance and focus.

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Each day is an opportunity. As usual, mine will be spent dancing. This is a beautiful thing. What do you do with your days? Who can you help and edify? How can your interactions be special and not merely by rote? These opportunities drive me forward. Thank you God for another day to dance, dream, and move forward as a better person!

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I want to take a moment to thank Jimmy Slyde, Ernest Brownie Brown, and Lavaughn Robinson for all they gave me in class and all the wisdom they shared with me about tap and about life. You were more than tap masters, tap teachers, tap choreographers- you were philosophers of life and a life well lived. Thank you for sharing it all. I hope I can do the same!

I wonder if next year I can get the pre-recital ritual down to an art form. Maybe with enough preparation it will be easier. Praying for that!

I just want to say how much I love Dance Educators of America! Vicki, Charles, and Vic run the best workshop, competition, and education program around! So proud and happy for my Emma to win platinum for tap and gold for lyrical and modern. I am so grateful my dad criticized my tapping. It’s led to so much good study and improvement. I have grown so much as an artist, dancer, and musician from that.  You can always find something positive from something you perceive as negative. Nothing is negative if it leads to growth! <3

I was thinking about 9 to 5 the musical that inspired this blog. It was so inspiring to see where I went wrong over the years. Doing everything for them made t hem helpless and when I didn’t, I was made to feel like the bad one. I see things more clearly now but it still breaks my heart. When did I decide everyone’s feelings and needs were more important than my own? When did I lose my backbone? I remember so clearly my sense of convictions in high school and my clear direction. It’s hard to believe 25 years later that I want to be the girl I once was- so clear, so defined, and so capable. I know I am capable of dance and dance teaching, but I want to be a whole person. I don’t want to be Roz, living for a man’s love so much that she sings love songs in the bathroom. I would like to be one of Andy’s red dress dancers who appear as if magic from the stalls! Well, those are today’s thoughts….enjoy your day.

I know I have a lot to do today, but I am already finding it difficult. I am prayerful I can get my head out of my butt and make a successful commitment to the world around me. I just don’t know where to begin. Let’s go finish the paperwork. Have a great day!

Hello, I am new to blogging. It’s an alternative to that I might find interesting. I am navigating a new life and hope this will help me with the process. Kind of a typing therapy so to speak. So I sit in my bed with my trusty cat Eleanor Rigby and contemplate the knowns: my personal  life is in the toilet and I am trying to make the best of it, I have more work to do with lawyers than dancers this week, and I am so healthy that I cannot be miserable. All my faculties are in excellent working order despite the fact that I will be turning 43 in May. So I guess complaining will be left to others with true problems and not me! The good news is I love my work and I intend to be a success at it or die trying. Since I have the healthy thing down, the die trying idea will take some time and allow me the learning curve necessary. Please don’t comment if you intend to be negative.