Look! You're Dancing
A Memoir of Dogs, Dance and Devotion
1st Edition
Published on 15. May 2022
220 pages
978-1-7354963-3-7 (ISBN)
Description
In Joyce A. Miller's memoir, Look! You're Dancing, she enters two worlds when she adopts a retired racing greyhound and decides to do canine freestyle, or dog dancing. Miller had a less than ideal childhood and felt she was an imposter for most of her life, not fitting in anywhere. When she worked with the greyhound adoption group and helped the sleek racers find their forever homes, she felt fulfilled. And when she started dancing, first with her greyhound and then tap dancing with a group of friends, she felt she finally found true friendship and a safe place that brought out the best in her. Look! You're Dancing explores the unique bond between a hound and a human and how something as simple as a dance enriches both lives.
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Joyce A. Miller adopted six greyhounds over the past twenty years and danced with several of them. Miller lives in the Church Hill section of Richmond, Virginia, with her husband and her latest retired racing greyhound. Before she started writing, Miller worked for over thirty years as a mechanical designer at a nuclear physics laboratory. When she is not writing, Miller can be found dog training, painting, practicing yoga, traveling with her French physicist friends, tap dancing, or volunteering with her greyhound adoption group.
Content
- Intro
- How It All Started
- Go Away for a While
- Greyhound Pets of America
- Home Visits
- Miz Betsy Rose
- Canine Freestyle Federation
- Easter on Parade
- Motley Crew
- Nursing Home Therapy Dogs
- My Poor Girl
- Things People Say to Greyhound Owners
- A Greyhound Puppy?
- James River Greyhounds
- Hit the Road, Jack
- Pet Crazy
- Free Fallin'
- Jefferson Lab
- PG Arrives
- Coax me
- Beach Bound Hounds
- Things Gifted To Me
- A Little White Wedding Chapel
- Grapehounds
- Walking the dogs
- Surprising Suffolk
- Things That Go Bump in the Night
- Long Goodbye
- Epilogue
