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Karen Burns

How I've survived violent crap. And dancing

About

Hi.

← This is me.

I’m Karen Burns. To my shock I live in a suburb and I like it. I moved to Chandler, Arizona 18 years ago, kinda by mistake. But I stayed anyway.

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Love and Shenanigans

This is my family. →

The husband is Keith,

A Very Patient Man.

The laughing girls/women are the daughters in college; Hannah, The Oldest and Talia, The Youngest. They were 21 and 20 when I captured this moment last year. We didn’t plan them to be born so close to each other. Oops. It’s been a great though.

We also have Chewiethedog, and what appears to be a cat, Surely. Her full name is Don’t Call Me Shirley. She’s not a great cat-type-thing. Chewiethedog is one of the best things that has ever happened to our family. And Surelythecat is…beautiful. She’d be ideal if she were nice, and not a threat to other living things. Like lizards. And birds. I love her deeply anyway.

These are my jobs: teaching dance, acting, piano and voice at local studios and Central Arizona College. This is the local Chandler Studio: http://sanmarcosmusicacademy.com/  Here are a couple of other studios: in Mesa, http://www.rhythmandmotiondance.com/ And in Scottsdale, http://www.dancefusionaz.com/

Plus this stuff:

Acting, writing. I’m an ordained minister. The minister thing is AWESOME! I can only marry ’em, bury ’em and baptize ’em, but I could do this everyday if someone would let me. https://thekarenburns.com/weddings

I live in a suburb with a few hundred thousand neighbors. I’ve (mostly) learned how to get along and make a small difference here. Hopefully, through this little blog you’ll find a way to do the same with the people you pass by on your part of the planet. And then, the world will be a little nicer, maybe eventually everywhere.

 Surelythecat-type-thing ↓

lazy carnivorous beast

Chewiethedog ↓

She believes she can fly.

You can email me if you want! karen@burnsitup.com

 

 

 

 

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Karen Burns

Karen Burns

I live in a suburb next to an enormous Intel plant in a desert where I don't belong. My neighbors are techies, blue-collar football fanatics, gamblers, bankers, parents, sky-divers, nurses, pilots. I'm a dance, music and acting teacher, performer still, mother and wife hoping to be kind in this corner of my non-indigenous environment. I actually like living here. Most of the time.

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