My dear friend filmmaker and journalist Nicole Franklin runs the Substack Before You Go , a blog and podcast dedicated to spending time with our elders and learning first-hand history and lessons f… Learn More

My dear friend filmmaker and journalist Nicole Franklin runs a Substack called Before You Go , a blog and podcast about spending time with our elders and learning first-hand history and lessons for… Learn More

I’ve had a love/hate relationship with martial arts for over thirty years. I revel in the training and the adrenaline rush, but I’m frustrated by techniques that aren't adapted to my body or my circ… Learn More

I found this article by Caroline Criado Perez in The Guardian and, though it is several years old, I'm not sure how much has changed.... When I was a personal trainer at the New York Health & R… Learn More

You're overextended, balancing work, family, mental and physical health. It's the weekend, you're headed to the zoo with the whole gang. The traffic is bad. Really bad. Someone gets an allergy attac… Learn More

Excerpt from: Reimagining Women’s Self-Defense Protective Offense: How self-defense fails women and how we can fix it - By Teja VanWicklen I grew up in New York City’s East Village before it wa… Learn More