Sandra Gail Lambert

Dancing With the Stars in Israel Has a Same-Sex Couple!!!!

This is better than Dancing With the Stars

 
Sins Invalid, GIMP Project, Dancing Wheels, DanceAbility - these are the physically integrated dance companies that Jodie Byzek reports on in New Mobility.  Some of these pictures are me, inside my brain, when I'm writing.
 

Dancing On Wheels

Yep, the BBC has "Dancing on Wheels" where (able-bodied) celebrities are paired with wheelchair-using dancers in a competition a la "Dancing With the Stars."  But, dang, the video clips are blocked from being seen in the US.  I did find this short preview.   

Ah, How Lovely

The Crutch Master - Bill Shannon

 

"Relating to your environment as it comes to you on an improvisational, freestyle basis."  Yes, this is how I want to and sometimes do move through the world.   

(And no, when I used crutches, I did not look like this - not that I didn't have my moments.) 

Dancing With the Stars

Dancing With the Stars premiers tomorrow night!  Here's my fantasy.  A novel of mine is published and does well enough that I get to be a sort of has-been celebrity and thus become not only the first wheelchair-using contestant on the show, but also the first same-sex paired dancer.  

Unfortunately, even though I enjoy it very much, I'm not such a good dancer.  Along with the ability to carry a tune, a sense of rhythm didn't quite make it through into this lifetime.  

But I'm counting on the misplaced sympathy vote to get me through the first cut.  I really want to get to wear at least two of those outfits.  Oh la la.    

Dancing with a twist, hitch, and tremor.

I went dancing last night.  It wasn't like this.  I'd like it to be like this.  I'd like to watch this.   

Wild Iris Books

It's been two days of revision at the sentence level.  It had gotten so that whenever someone said something to me, I'd see their words as if they were a strip of closed captioning.  Then I'd add commas and rearrange phrases.  It had to stop.  I had to clear my brain.

And now, after a night of dancing and lovely flirting at Wild Iris Books, I don't care if you run your sentences on it won't even make me blink.  To seriously dance will remove all my worries about split infinitives, and upon arriving home, even dangling modifiers left my mind. 

Well, I and those dangling modifiers I brought home with me are going to bed.  Sweet Dreams, all.      

 

Wild Iris Books supports writers

Sure, your local, independent bookstore provides reading and booksigning events, they give front shelf room to the work of homegrown authors, they hand sell your book to customers, and they are excited with you about any writing success, but my local feminist bookstore serves even more of my writing needs.

This past Saturday, after a week of near cloistering in my writing bed, I put on an orange bra and a red dress and went dancing at Wild Iris Book's monthly women's dance.  It was perfect for post-writing immersion - social and physical and filled with lesbians looking good.  It was so much fun that the next day I had to take extra Extra Strength Tylenol. 

Once again, thanks and appreciation to our bookstores.