ABOUT ME
I move through the world with curiosity, appetite, and a refusal to grow smaller. I travel lightly, follow what interests me, and pay attention to the moments that make life feel vivid — music, place, conversation, beauty, surprise.
I’m drawn equally to wildness and elegance: dancing across fields at festivals, slipping into an opera house after a long meal, wandering unfamiliar cities, tending plants, listening closely. I value experience over accumulation and curiosity over certainty. Plans are useful, but wonder matters more.
I’ve lived enough life to know that joy and loss, restlessness and gratitude, seriousness and play can coexist. What matters to me now is aliveness — staying awake to the world, keeping the heart open, and choosing engagement over fear.
Tiny Dancer is a place to share stories and reflections from the road and from daily life — an invitation to feel more at home in the world, and more excited about being alive in it.
FINDING YOUR WAY AROUND THIS WEBSITE
I keep adding to the categories as I post. So if you are interested in a particular place or subject, just enter it in the Search bar. You will likely find travel and transportation tips in the post or posted nearby in time.
Viva has random observations about life itself.
It also has links to environmental articles published in my role as part of the Editorial Team at Greentumble at Environmental Articles.
Too, I have written four novels thus far:
Renting the Veil, which can be described a thousand different ways. Today I will label it a psychological thriller. It's available under my pen name Eliza Hewitt from Amazon and Kindle.
Cloud 8, a fun and fulfilling fantasy of gods steering the social and political climate of a world. Again available under my pen name Eliza Hewitt from Amazon and Kindle.
Oliver's Travels, Book One
The first book is a series of the adventures of a young man traveling the world with no set itinerary and on a shoestring budget. Staying in hostels, airbnbs, in a hammock or on a couch, he is less a tourist than a wanderer. His only mantra is to stay present in the moment and drink deeply of life. At times hilarious and at other moments haunting, his adventures and misadventures are an authentic guide to the places he roams. It's available under my pen name Eliza Hewitt from Amazon and Kindle.
Oliver's Travels, Book Two
In Book Two, Oliver continues his adventures backpacking on a pittance and living like a Prince… as he explores the lands from France to fantastical Barcelona, across sunflower fields and into the oldest cities of Spain, dropping down from the Strait of Gibralter into mysterious medinas in Africa, slipping back up to the colorful Italian Riviera and then seeking immersion in the artistic splendor of Florence.Again available under my pen name Eliza Hewitt from Amazon and Kindle.
Links to all books are included on their respective home pages.
Street art includes well, classic street art painted on buildings and sometimes architectural details or stunning landscapes that feel like they should qualify. Street art captures the zeitgeist while the architecture and landscapes feel more classical, more like the canvas.
