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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...

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...

Last night I watched a documentary with my husband that followed three men running across the Sahara Desert.  All the way across.  The ultimate message that I took with me was that the grand picture is...

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...

I watched a documentary on YouTube last night on the subject of Muay Thai, “Born to Fight.”  At one point the owner/manager of the “most famous gym in Thailand” (according to the video), said one can...

There is coherency in how I see myself, perhaps for the first time in my life.  There was always a kind of Jekyl and Hyde dichotomy in my self-perception, or a hidden, inner self that I...

My focus of late has been “getting in.”  At my size, it is conceivable that I will always be shorter and possibly lighter than my opponant.  Only the former poses a technical obstacle, for which strategic...