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Why Your Daughter Needs A Self-Defense Class

I have two teenaged daughters. I’ve worked in domestic violence advocacy for ten years. I am a woman myself. Yet I’ve never taken a self-defense class. Until last weekend, when I spent two hours with 10 fifteen year old girls and a female instructor who had a black belt in karate and years of self-defense…

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Life Lessons From A Week On Crutches

So I managed to do my ankle in, which landed me in an Aircast and crutches. I know what youre thinking and for the record, I was not walking and texting. In fact, I was attempting to walk and talk at the VERY same time and managed to go over on my ankle. Its a good thing I wasnt chewing gum or I may have ended up in a full body cast.

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Risky Business: Getting To The Core

I got into an argument with a guy recently concerning the reasons why it feels so disorienting to do a somersault when you get older. I know, I’m “that” dinner party guest. He claimed it had to do with the aging process of your ears and the crystals that inhabit the ear canal. I agreed…