Blog #1 – My First Blog in WordPress (dancewithjoy.wordpress.com) – In my blogs you will find info on a variety of subjects. There will be info I have researched, as well as my opinions and feelings about whatever I’m writing about at the time. I’m a woman, a senior, who finds after a busy life of working 9 to 5 mainly as a secretary, performing with dance groups mainly on weekends, raising two sons and being nanny to three grandchildren, now finds that she has the freedom to choose what she wants to do with whatever time is left to her. The last things that occupied me were being a nanny to my grandchildren, teaching dance classes at senior centers, and going to folk dance groups. The pandemic stopped the folk dancing and the teaching at senior centers. No longer do I have the energy to be nanny to any new grandchildren that may come, so that frees me to a great extent to pursue just the things that interest me and that I have a passion for. Now that things have gone back to a great extent to pre-pandemic life I can again teach at senior centers (and presently I’m back doing this in Brooklyn – also I have added a chair yoga class I teach to seniors and this practice helps me as well) and I can continue folk dancing as classes are not just on zoom anymore. I have a number of chair and standup dances on YouTube videos, plus spiritual poems and prose podcasts on YouTube. I enjoy writing and write reviews for TripAdvisor and started writing some memoirs. I find that self-love and self-care are so important and something we must devote some time to each day. And listening to healing and meditative frequencies on YouTube are very conducive to one’s peace and health; also helpful is taking natural supplements that maintain our health and energy. And of course, eating a healthy diet goes a long way as well. I do hope what I share in this blog will be helpful.