My Tango Diaries

I wanted to give some love to a few fabulous tango blogs I've recently uncovered thanks to other well-informed tango bloggers out there. Give them a read when you get the chance, there's beautifully written content out there. Gonzalo David Orihuela - http://gonzaloorihuela.blogspot.com/ La Milonga Del 126 (Honolulu/Buenos Aires): http://lamilongadel126.blogspot.com/ TangoBora's All About Tango: http://tangobora.wordpress.com/ Beating Tolstoy, mostly a blog about proactivity, with some tango thrown in - wonderful stuff: http://beatingtolstoy.wordpress.com/ Christina and Ladybug of TangoDurians: http://tangodurians.blogspot.com/ There are probably a few more, but I've lost track of which blog I added to the blogroll when, so those are the most recent ones. Enjoy!

"If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, "When you're ready." Black Swan Green, David Mitchell After much thoughtful discourse around the blogosphere about what should and should not be expressed in someone's blog, I wanted to take a few minutes to share my thoughts, and maybe clarify my position on a couple of things. On blogging generally . . . This is a blog , which is (or was) short for "web log". That is to say, a diary on the web. I have written frequently that these posts are my opinion - and only my opinion. I write about things I like and things I don't like. I babble about random things that I haven't had a chance to form an opinion about yet. I'll like one thing at one point, and hate it 6 months later, and vice versa. This is what many people have blogs for - working things out, getting discussions going, occasionally ranting and raving, more than occa...

My tango experience has combined three of my favorite activities - dancing, writing and photography. I think that's what makes this such a thorough addiction. Tango has worked it's way into so many parts of my life. Still, it's very challenging. I have a husband (who does not dance), a job, two shiba inu (dogs), and one nutty cat. Essentially, I have a full time home life, full time job and full time hobby. My morning starts at 5:30am. I stumble to my office (sometimes I remember my glasses, most of the time I don't) turn on the monitor and open Firefox. It's usually about that time I remember I don't have my glasses on and have to go fetch them. If it's Wednesday, I'm extra sleepy because of the Tuesday night milonga, which usually puts me in bed around midnight or 1am the night before. I log on to my email before I do anything else and open the same five tabs. 1. Gmail - I usually have 5 or 6 emails from tango dancers that I need to answer first thin...