Author Archives: Bill Bowles

There are so many girls who dream about becoming a ballerina. But I was different. The dance studio was my life. Every day I was in my own world practicing my pirouettes and choreography. People were amazed at how easily I danced on my toes like a professional. On a big performance day, as I […]

To me seeking happiness is the most important thing, and on that I always keep an eye. It may seem self-centered, but I believe being happy is the only way you are really yourself. I no longer have a tolerance for misery. If what I’m working toward does not give me peace then I move […]

No man is an island. Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. As well as if promontory were. As well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were; any man’s death diminishes […]

Go into the world as an active participant to create a better one for all.

You are not what you endure. You are the endurance through which you survive it.

It’s taking me a while to become comfortable with identities that I feel I have been pinned to, but I am slowly learning that I am allowed to embrace them. Being Queer and Cuban, I usually get categorized and compared to qualities with bad connotations. I have found that the only way to navigate through […]

“Life’s passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.” Richard FordEvery day I wake up and marvel at how WONDERFUL my life is. I just wish it hadn’t taken me so long to get here.

I fear of mediocrity- and not living up to all I can be, and contributing all I can contribute. I believe in people, in their innate goodness, imagination, creativity and ability to act. I fight for people who have no voice- so they can be all they can be through unleashing their own imaginative powers and having the […]

I share a name with my father and his father, I’d like to think they both still live through me. I have NO IDEA what happens next, but the world is BIG and KIND and there are plenty of new adventures out there. I am DETERMINED to do something ground with my life. Thank you RISD it’s been a […]

Sick and disabled women are some of the strongest, most compassionate people around-mostly because we have to be. We often feel we need to prove we are no more dependent, no more burdensome, no less autonomous, and no less valuable than healthy people.But, my faith taught me that humans are INTERDEPENDENT and we have to […]