Elevé-ted Conversations--A Series of Culture-Driven Dance Journal Entries

I t's interesting just how full circle life is. Five years ago, I began writing my first blog, Adolescence in Retrograde (AIR) , a collection of articles aimed to teenagers and young adults that provided advice on how to navigate their lives during this period of immense and ongoing change. The article featured personal experiences of my own as a person exiting adolescence and the work of psychologists and sociologists to  explain the happenings of puberty and demonstrate just how much of a process adolescence is whether you are 10 or 25 years old. However, the initial reason for beginning that blog was not purely altruistic. I was 3 months out of my post-baccalaureate fellowship at Knox College, working a job that was barely giving me enough money to pay my bills--which included my first car note and payments on two credit cards I maxed out to survive during the fellowship--and had nothing to do with any of my three academic foci in college--education, psychology, and dance. On...