Girlboxing

I admit it. Not every day is stellar. I’d walked to the gym at my usual clip, feeling as if I’d work through my 16 rounds or so with reasonable ease, already planning out the things I wanted to work on: Moving with the jab, followed by a...

Tonight is Kol Nidre, so named as it is the old Aramaic prayer Jews around the world will sing annulling all oaths and vows made before G-d at the start of the Day of Atonement, or Yom Kippur. If that felt like a lot, believe me, it is a lot. And hea...

Twenty years has passed in the blink of an eye since the events of September 1, 2001, and yet we also have all of the extraordinary moments that we have lived through year in and year out since then. I have raised a child, completed my BA and MA, p...

I had a good boxing workout this morning at Gleason’s Gym, aided by the fact that I had a decent sleep for a change.  My work out was my favorite, four rounds of shadow boxing, four on the focus pads with my trainer Lennox Blackmoore, four rou...

Having just lived through the effects of the post-tropical Hurricane Ida from the safety of my 4th floor apartment in Brooklyn, I can say that while life can be a wild ride, our reference point will always be the determinant for our perspective unles...

I am in week 19 of my campaign back to physical fitness at Brooklyn’s Gleason’s Gym after a long pandemic induced hiatus — and wow do I need it. Okay, yes, the COVID-19 pounds. The stress of the on-going pandemic.  A plethora of in...

What would Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., make of us today? We have undergone a violent insurrection at our nation’s Capital Building by those intent on not only impeding the acceptance of the Electoral College vote that saw President-elect Joe B...