Traci’s Blogs

Traci has written a blog a week for many years. Use the search bar to find topics of interest.

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How I Talked Myself Into Taking This Sexy Chair Dance Class

I saw the movie “Flashdance” when I was 14 years old. It’s about a sexy woman who is an exotic dancer by night and a welder by day. It’s the same movie that propelled Jennifer Beals into stardom overnight, while the real dancer in the movie, Marine Jahan, became a trivia question. One of the best scenes in the movie is where the main character is performing a chair dance on stage, and reaches up to pull a cord so that a bucket splashes on her as she dances to “He’s A Dream” in a lacey teddy.

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The Covid-19 Prayer

I was thinking about a childhood memory today, that of a sign posted in my Grandma Kanaan's kitchen. It read:

God grant me the serenity o accept the things I cannot change;

Courage to change the things I can;

and the wisdom to know the difference.

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A Life Lesson from The Lotus Blossom

One of the things I missed this year, was going to the Tampa Bay Renaissance Festival, canceled due to Covid-19. While going through my jewelry box, I stumbled across a memento from a Ren Fest visit from 3 years ago.

It was a beautifully cool Sunday in April of 2017. I was recently divorced. My mother had passed just weeks before. I wasn't seeing anyone, and I was tired of staying at home grieving my mother's loss. I knew a change of scenery would do me good, so I headed to The Tampa Bay Ren Fest where I was looking forward to losing myself for a few hours.

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