A Creative Life

The Second Arrow- Sneak Peek #2

From Chapter 52 “Caution! Bus is turning. Caution! Bus is turning.” I hear this over and over as I receive a much-needed massage from my dear friend, Jen. I am trying everything I can to deal with my stress. Her office sits a block from the busy thoroughfare of Germantown...

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Angélique Kidjo— World Dance Party in Philly

I’ve wanted to see world music vocalist and five-time Grammy winner, Angélique Kidjo, ever since I heard her album Eve in 2014 and started using her music in my Global Rhythms Dance programs. I danced joyously with hundreds of families to rousing “M’Baamba” (Kenyan Song). We rested with her lullaby...

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Sneak Peek into The Second Arrow

  So, I started this book in June of 2019 and it is finally going to come out into the world. I’m excited!! Here’s my first installment post of a “sneak peek” into the book. First, about the title.  This quote appears on one of my opening pages. “Losing someone...

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Dancing in the Darkness- Koresh Dance Company

The piece begins with a single dancer running frantically and fearfully on the stage. She is running from something. We don’t know what. “Darkness—Dancing to Pieces,” performed by the Philly-based Koresh Dance Company this past weekend             (March 14-16)  at FringeArts, is “dedicated to all...

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Roberta Halpern, artist and writer, is a former English teacher and healer. A native New Yorker, she currently resides in Philadelphia.