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Site Update(d)

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21 Mar/23
After several years of the same look and feel, it was time for a visual overhaul of the site and removal of some pages, downloads, and such that were out-of-date or no longer relevant to the current direction I wanted the site to go. After being down for about a…
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Gone Quiet But Still Here

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31 Dec/19
I know I’ve gone quiet since my last post about leaving the Academy. Since then I’ve been giving some thought to a challenge I gave myself nearly a decade back, but hadn’t been able to fully realize … until now. The challenge revolved around the development of a rules system,…
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The Departed

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02 Nov/19
The 100 level class is half-way through and as I’d been reflecting on the class now that I’ve reached the mid-point, I made the decision to step away. The reason I shared with the lead instructor was the same issue I noted in my last post: Time needed to do…
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Hit and Miss

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22 Oct/19
The miss was that there wasn’t a post week before last week and last week and that was because I was away from Seattle, traveling on business for the first and not feeling good for the second. Between the two off weeks, the hit, is that I was at class…
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One Word: Drills

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24 Sep/19
If I had to sum up this week’s class in one word that word would be ‘drills.’ We went through two drills that we need to all do regularly, as in daily, to help us commit to muscle memory the different attacks and defenses that we learned the week before…
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The Journey Begins

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19 Sep/19
Class started on the evening of Monday, Sept. 16. Out of the nearly dozen who’d signed up/expressed an interest in joining the class there were only six of us who showed up, and the majority of us are women! Two others who have been through this before are also auditing…
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