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Today's Google Doodle commemorates the 388th birthday of French author Charles Perrault. He wrote (based on folk tales) some of today's wide...
I'd have a few concerns. But I'm not a mom of a girl going away to school, I just teach personal safety skills to girls whose moms are conce...
I'm not a football fan. But, because I'm not a supporter of domestic violence, I was glad to hear that both Seahawks coach Pete Carroll and...
I resisted watching this video for a couple of months. Really, the first few moments of music made me want to hunker down with a glass of wi...
One student told me that when a guy on the street bumped into her friend -- she's sure deliberately -- the friend apologized right away and...
Today our thoughts are with the Seattle Pacific University community. Deepest condolences to the family and friends of the young man taken t...
Seattle's Fight the Fear Campaign (FtFC) is a community-oriented violence-prevention initiative. FtFC provides free training in basic self-d...
We've all seen them. Decals, generally on minivans, showing stick figures representing family members. Or sometimes representing parodies of...
Students who have taken my six-week self-defense course for women already know this: the rate of violence has been in decline for the past c...
In local news, some residents of Seattle's Capitol Hill are getting fed up with street assaults. According to this article in The Seattle Ti...
My friend Kinny (you likely met her if you took some of my self-defense classes, as she often assists) is an inveterate newspaper reader, an...
Seattle's Northwest Network is now offering a series of free webinars on various topics related to domestic violence and beyond. I participa...
Here are a smattering of #selfdefensesuccess stories that have across my screen these last couple of weeks. Important to remember: I'll bet...
OK, not exactly "fishing." Teach anyone any skill set, and she can use it for her own benefit. However, she is also likely to use her skills...
Friend and fellow martial artist Jan Parker has been teaching a long time; she was already a master teacher when I was a mere novice two dec...
I don't care if this is over 3 years old, it's still funny. Ellen DeGeneres learns some basic self-defense moves, just in case she finds her...
Best wishes to all for a happy, healthy, and fulfilling 2014! Another little ditty to herald in the new year. Again, written, performed and...
Once again, ripped from the headlines (actually, more often inside pages) from the web. These are all stories of women and girls successfull...
This afternoon I taught a class for tween girls (and a mom or two), and afterwards one mom and I were talking about this "blaming the victim...
Christmas is almost upon us, and what can be more cheery and bright than a rousing, empowering self-defense Christmas carol? Wanna hear it?...
One of the first things I do Sunday morning is sit down with the Sunday comics and a mug of coffee. Most of the time it is pure leisure. Thi...
I'm going to be posting every week or two a smattering of stories ripped from the headlines. They all will be on women or girls who were att...
No, I am NOT advocating to my self-defense students that we consider this a viable self-defense weapon. But self-defense does take on a diff...
Alert reader Donna saw this article in Oprah's magazine. It recounts how one woman out jogging used the self-defense skills she had learned...
Do you own a taser? Have you never used it, are considering not carrying it around any more, and are now wondering what to do with it? Zap y...