Riot and Frolic

a mostly ballroom dance, but also a bunch of other stuff, blog

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I own and rock people’s faces off teaching ballroom dancing at Dancers Studio in St. Paul, MN. My husband and I compete professionally in American style and wrangle eight children in our spare time. I’ve been teaching and competing in ballroom dancing for over 25 years and have lots of opinions on it. I am an expert by any means, but there are quite a few dancers who are better than me and I have a solid knowledge of basic technique, so suck it.

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  • You Know You Want To…

    Hey, you.  Are you reading this over the super-lame Interwebs?  Get with the times and subscribe to Riot and Frolic via The Emails!  Go to the ye olde right sidebar over there ———————————–> and click on "Subscribe to the Feed" under Follow the Riot…  (It's free!) You can get new posts sent straight to your…

  • Joy To The World

    Merry Christmas, of course.  Happy December 25, otherwise. Let us rejoice because not only is bacon great, but you can make bacon greater. It's true. Do this: Grab some bacon, a jelly roll pan (a cookie sheet with a lip, yo), and all the seasonings in this recipe.   this is where it gets awesome…

  • Bacon

    On our trip to sunny Las Vegas a couple weeks ago, we were wandering around The Forum Shops at Caesar's Palace when HUNGER STRUCK.  You know, that fun, zippy kind of hunger that makes you want to bite someone's head off?   Our party had just reached the dead end of the Atlantis Fountain where The…

  • Why I’m Boring

    The other day I was trying to make conversation with normal people: people who do not share my field of work and don't know my kids.  [Not saying that if you are a ballroom dancer or know my kids, then you are abnormal… but wait…] And I'm terribly boring.  Similar to how my life is…

  • It’s Pomegranate Season

    So let's rejoice.   Pomegranates. That is all.   nea gets this  

  • Breakfast Nastiness

    Recently, I've taken to making a green smoothie for breakfast which I never thought I'd do because they sound gross.   And let's face it, they look gross, too. i mean, it's GREEN Oh, and smell gross.  But they don't taste too bad and they get your morning started with a crapload (E. L. James…

  • How Not To Make A Meal Plan

    This is not a post about meal planning.  It's a post about not meal planning. Despite my good intentions and a chalkboard clearly labeled "MENU", I have purged my meal-planning diet and fallen into a nasty "what the heeeelll is in this here kitchen?" habit at meal times.   Then that stupid Pinterest website shows…

  • Chop Chomp Salad

    What is so great about a chopped salad?   Everything. Except for the chopping.   That gets a little excessive. But yum. natural ombré- so trendy [How does one pronounce "ombré"?  I like to think it's said "hombre", like a dude in Spanish.] Jamie Oliver turned me on to chopped salads after I read his…

  • Amish F-ing Peanut Butter, Y’all

    Have you all heard of AMISH PEANUT BUTTER?!  I don't know what's so Amish about it, but it will knock you right off your wagon, let me tell you. This is not in any way, a healthy, sugar-free, fat-free treat.  This is a full-fledged, hard-core, indulgent, addicting thing.   My darling, calm, peaceful friend came…

  • Party! Party!

    Sometimes you throw a party and you're like, "Hey, it's cool, there's only like 15 people coming and 5 of those people live in my house, so whatevs."  But then you realize you're really bad at counting and twice that many real people show up.   Whatevs, man.  It's cool. For the first time ever, I wasn't…