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liberty on stage. They really helped
shape my career when I was young,
naive, and unexperienced. They
nurtured me and let me blossom.
Thank you Richard Barham, Tony
Karasak, Dave Dhillion, and all.
Then a Trip to Egypt...
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Hers was one of the first bellydance
tours of its kind. We were slated to take
lessons with Nagwa Fuad, but that
wasn't the aspect which interested me.
It was the call of Ancient Egypt that
was drawing me. I packed my bags and
took my novel little pharaonic costume
with me. One of my main objectives
was to get my picture taken wearing
this costume in front of the pyramids. I
did succeed in that endeavor. I also got
my picture taken with one of the most
famous bellydancers of all time -
Tahia Carioca - and the photo ended
up in an Egyptian newspaper!
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Well, my 1977 trip deserves to be a
separate story in itself. But the link
with my cane dance took place on this
tour when we took a side trip to Luxor
to the Valley of the Kings and Queens.
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Although I did not then grasp the
significance of where we were, our
group visited Hatshepsut's mortuary
temple at Deirel-Bahri. There I had a
supernatural experience that pro-
foundly effected me to such a degree
that I couldn't even talk much about it
for years. Now, thanks to the influence
of New Age thinking, it is more
accepted that such things occur to
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