Today is the Dress Up Day!
Years ago, in the beginning of my first adult job, I wished one day I could go to work wearing the perfect outfit, Continue reading “The Dress Up Day”
Tag girls
DJ Vita
Vita is invited to make her debut as a local tango DJ in the Bay Area, with not one but two gigs in one weekend. She accepts that graciously, as a favor, and as an honor. She takes care to prepare two completely different lists, no songs overlapping. I, semi-jokingly, semi-teasingly, ask if she would take requests. Continue reading “DJ Vita”
Yulia. Travel. Jewels.
Adopted from a speech given in 2011 at my home club
What’s so precious about travel that we don’t mind spending lots of money, hauling heavy bags, getting hassled at airports, sleeping in strange beds? In 2010, I was to travel to the UK for work the week after Thanksgiving. Continue reading “Yulia. Travel. Jewels.”
The Beginning of Tango
It all began when Bill went to Iraq. Bill was tall, young, smart, handsome, recently single, and down-to-earth – for a software engineer anyway. I don’t recall Bill ever going to those video game parties the other guys were so fond of.
At Karen’s ballroom dance class in College Park, a girl introduced herself to Bill: “My name is Honey. As something sweet.” Bill responded: Continue reading “The Beginning of Tango”
Connections
An Icebreaker speech for Panorama Toastmasters
People around us shape our lives more than we are willing to admit. This talk is about just three of the many who affected mine.
When I was little, I would spend summers with my grandma, in Vyborg, north of St. Petersburg, Russia. She would take me for long berry or mushroom foraging Continue reading “Connections”
Love letters understated 