The one thing that I don’t love about my pre-natal yoga class is the Partnered Exercise. You know, you’re all up in your yoga bubble, and then the teacher says, “ok! Pick a partner ...
Called a friend yesterday, wished him a happy birthday, got off the phone and realized: Dude, a year ago I was late to his birthday dinner because I had pointe class. Dang. That was a year ago. I mea...
Gentle Reader, I bought The Most Hilarious bathing suit the other day, See ’cause like I joined a pool so I can get my swim on, but all my pre-pregnant bathing suits are bikinis and you know th...
Got this dorky pregnancy app on my phone. It’s got, like, a timeline of when to have tests and sonograms and stuff, and a weight tracker and contraction timer and a daily tip and creepy not-qui...
So it turns out that I really like prenatal yoga. Which is a surprise considering how I feel about yoga. I like it for good and bad reasons. The Good Reasons: Prenatal yoga, or a least the class I...
Last Thursday Mr. Adult Beginner and I were way up in the balcony at the Ahmandson Theater to see Follies. I know, Gentle Reader, you’re thinking, “But why would they do that?! Musical Th...
Ok so back in early April, it was time to return after my two-week invasive medical test recovery break to take one last ballet class and break the news to Smirnoff. Which I knew was gonna be rough. ...
This is just a teaser while I write out the godawful experience that was telling Smirnoff that I’m taking some time off from ballet as per my doctor’s recommendation. Yeah, I told him ...
Bonjour Gentle Reader! Un guest post lé magnifique por vu! Oohlala! A Canadian (Beginner) Ballerina in Paris By @zeelogan Two months prior to my French spring vacation I realized I booked my ticket o...
Went to see the midwives back in March for nutrition counseling. Had been keeping a food diary for two weeks. Which sux. You can’t, like, even snack while prepping dinner without thinking, R...
Ok so this popped up on the twitter the other day: And I was like omg WANT! WANT! I mean just Yum, look at them, they have that certain quality of BAD ASS that pale pink satin pointes lack. And the N...
Had an appointment with the midwives back in March, This was the appointment where they ask a million questions about family history and health, like: Do you smoke? ew, never Do you drink?before I go...
Went to see some ballet Sunday afternoon, The Grand Théàtre de Genève Ballet Company, with three pieces choreographed by Benjamin Millepied, or He of the hilariously-balletical last name. Also he of ...
Gentle Reader, you may have noticed that I’ve been away from the blog lately, and I’m not going to apologize because suck it that’s why, But if you’re interested, here’s...
This guy!!!
As seen in The Great Book Of Lingerie by Cecil Saint-Laurent, this shot of “the Dancers Green Room” by FE Mesplés: It was during the reign of Louis XV that the law required dancers to wea...
Really, Pointe Magazine? Dudes in ballet don’t have a hard enough time already? You gotta run a feature interview with head-toe-purple?
Today’s agro knuckle tattoos inspired by Dancing On My Grave, by Gelsey Kikland
We’re doing this pas couru exercise the other day- Which always makes me think of Rod Carew, even though I’m not a baseball fan. I mean, I like eating peanuts and watching when the bats c...
Ok so one evening, a long long time ago, when I was like ten or whatever, I was in the car with my dad. He was driving me to the psychiatrist. This was something he and my stepmom had just recently s...
I have this great book: Let’s Go to the Moon by Michael Chester, illustrations by Albert Micale, published 1965 “in the Dominion of Canada by Longmans Canada Limited, Toronto” Did y...
Some new music in class today, (still not The ipod tho) What Smirnoff really wants, he sez, is some new waltz, some new Strauss. But Strauss is in Vienna, de-composing. And we all groan, And he laugh...
Had a minute before class and watched a bunch of ballet clips on YouTube and then went to class and did this combination in center with a bunch of jumps and, like, working on pas faille with the swoo...
No he does not! When I swagger over before class to say hello and give him my money so he can look me over and enter me into his Giant Class Ledger, he is all, “Good, My Dear, you have new shoe...
Hey lookit, I’m interviewed over at 4dancers! You can see it for yourself right here Woo!
Sometimes it’s fun to settle in with a needle and thread and spend some time lovingly sewing elastics to ballet slippers. And other times it’s nice to just sew the elastics by machine and...
Me!
Even here in southern California. Some things about taking The Ballet in The Winter Time suck: it’s cold, the Adult Beginner is even less flexible than usual, one of my legwarmers has gone miss...
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