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Musings on Life in my Fifties . . .

This Sunday, May 11th, there will be a Milonga ( tango dance party) at the Moulon Rouge in the back of the Paris on Ponce antique shop on Ponce de Leon Place in Atlanta. There will be a beginners class at 1:30pm, and the Milonga will go from 2:30-5pm. There is a real treat this [...]

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I think flexibility is an important attribute and I keep finding plenty of opportunities to practice it on a regular basis. Last week, I worked for three solid days in the garden with my two amigos, getting all of the beds cleaned up, planted and mulched motivated in part by the assigned author of having a barbecue Saturday night.

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I am sometimes amazed and always grateful when something that I desire seemingly comes to me out of the blue. After getting home from Argentina, I really wanted to take my dancing to the next level and be able to

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Lena who teaches with the Tango Evolution group on 8:00 Thursday evenings, sent me the link for her photos from the recent Buenos Aires Trip. Lena was one of the twelve or so people from the ATL that went to CITA 2008.

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Last night, a snappy little milonga came on. I looked around and everyone was out dancing except one rather curmudgeonly man who happens to be an excellent dancer. I just loved this very lively music so I went over to him and asked him to dance with me. Him ( with skepticism): “Do you think [...]

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Too bad a I can’t do a double-blind study on the question as to whether or not Propranolol helps with Dance performance anxiety, because to tell you the truth I can’t really attest to its effectiveness yet even after two days (12 hours dancing) of the dance festival. I did really put my attention on [...]

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Duane and I started Tango classes last year in September. Its pretty darn hot here in Atlanta in September and I was always drenched by halfway through the class. I guess I thought everyone was sweating and I was just sweating a bit more. Then over the next couple of months I quit sweating so [...]

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After Buenos Aires you might thing that we would need a break but noooo… The Atlanta Tango Festival is here this week- in of all places, Atlanta. There are some pre-festival happenings starting tonight but the real deal begins Friday afternoon. Duane and I are hosting an out of town tango couple here at the [...]

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I have been working on the website for the Urban Oasis Bed and Breakfast all week and am almost finished fiddling around with it. I am really excited about getting our first guests. We don’t have paying guests yet,

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