Currently Reading: Muay Thai

There are complications to being a woman - or more specifically, having a female body - in a male dominated sport.  As a fighter you are using your body to perform an art and you must...

My fight on Friday night ended quickly, within the first round.  As such, my fight wasn't even 2 minutes long and the opportunity to fight again this coming Friday presented itself and I took it.  So...

It’s the day before my first fight in Chiangmai and I’m lying here on my bed chewing on every thought that wanders in and out of my head.  It’s customary to take the day before, of...

  I met Andy early at the camp this morning, at 5:00.  It was still dark out, the fluorescent rods affixed to a few of the posts holding up the roof casting a bizarre and insect-like...

We arrived in Chiangmai on Thursday afternoon.  Coming from the airport, the little neighborhood in which the gym is located became recognizable very quickly.  We checked into the same hotel we stayed at last time and...

Over I’m moving to Thailand in less than a month.  I’m so excited, so joyous and inspired by the realization of this dream that I can barely think of anything to be nervous about.  As it...

The following is the Personal Statement for my proposed research/study project through the Fulbright Grant.  It expresses a lot of what I’ve already expressed, and to some extent what I will forever be trying to express. ...

In the movie “Man on Fire,” Denzel Washington’s character tells his charge, a little girl on a swim team, that “there is no such thing as tough; there is only trained and untrained.”  I love that...

About two years ago I came home from work and my husband told me he wanted to show me something.  He led me outside to the wooded yard across the street and directed me to look...

I’ve come across it a lot in my time spent in gyms and among fighters, that men struggle with their aggression in the context of combat.  It seems that a lot of the guys who talk...