FREE Girls Fight Back! Program in NC

June 8, 2010

Share Hope anyone close to the Piedmont Triad Area of North Carolina will join me for the fun, free event!  At 11am on Saturday, June 12th, I’ll be presenting a free Girls Fight Back! seminar at Advanced World Martial Arts Systems in Kernersville.  The program is appropriate for ages 13 and up and will last about 90 [...]

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Hollaback!

May 27, 2010

Share One of my favorite organizations is at a pivotal moment in its growth today and I wanted to share something about them here. The group is called Hollaback and it has chapters all over the country. I first became a fan at the age of 19 when on my first ever trip to NYC [...]

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Bullying in Schools, Phoebe’s Story

May 25, 2010

Share I feel like this blog topic is a little late coming, but I think it is an incredibly important topic. I came across this topic while reading an old people magazine . . . Don’t judge me and let’s not pretend you don’t love People magazine.  Anyway, I read an article about bullying. [...]

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Rain, Rain Go Away. Leave Me Alone. I Don’t Want Any Problems.

May 20, 2010

Share I have news. Spring has not arrived in New England. Or, if it has, it chose hatefully to take a day off when I stopped in for a visit earlier this week. But that’s OK, because cold and damp did not take the fire out of the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut Tuesday night, [...]

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We Are What We Watch: Violence Against Women on TV

May 17, 2010

Share I read an interesting article this month in Marie Claire magazine this month – an article that startled me, an article that made me angry. According to “Women in Peril,” a study by the Parents Television Council, violence against women on television has jumped 120 percent since 2004, even while all kinds of violence [...]

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Bystander Intervention in Maine!

May 5, 2010

Share “It was really scary, but I’m glad we got involved”  Check out this link for an awesome story about five women who subdued an attacker in Maine.  You go girls!

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Way to Go, California!

May 3, 2010

Share Super excited to see California taking some strong steps to make self-defense education a required part of a public school education!  Check out this link!

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“You’ll have to kill me”

April 28, 2010

Share I read this article yesterday about John Gardner, who murdered Chelsea King and Amber Dubois. Unfortunately, there’s not a lot I hear about this case that surprises me. He was a predator. A repeat sex offender who had attempted to take the lives of other young women as well. After years of hearing all [...]

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Self-Defense Class at Krav Maga Portland

April 27, 2010

Share On April 3, I had the opportunity to take a self-defense class taught at Portland Krav Maga with Renee Jenkins. It was a padded attacker class, with krav staff helping with instruction and volunteers from the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office as the padded attackers, aka, the guys who are graciously willing to take a [...]

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Packing Your Bags? Read Here Before You Jet Set…

April 19, 2010

Share So it’s that time of year. If they’re not already, exams will soon be only a bad memory. Class – that two or three times-weekly appointment you usually skip – will be a cramp in your schedule no more. It’s time to throw a dart at the map, make a quick stop at tripadvisor.com [...]

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