Are You Addicted To Being Busy?

This topic makes me very uncomfortable because I am addicted to being busy. I feel weird and disjointed if I’m not working at all hours, if don’t have 10 projects stacked up, if I’m not stressed out. And when I’ve got downtime, I volunteer so I have something to...

Having a Reel Good Time as an Irish Dancer

Happy St. Patrick’s Day, everyone! This post originally appeared in Germ Magazine, High school & Beyond: Real Thoughts, Real Writing, Real Life. Germ’s literary editor, Sheryl Monks, asked me some great questions about dance, poetry, performance and...

Why I Irish Dance

I can’t remember why I stopped dancing, but now I never want to stop. Since I was three to about 12 years old I took ballet and a year of tap in Northern Virginia. My last two years of dancing were with the Christina Heimlich International School of Dance and I...
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