by Strength Through the Struggle | May 23, 2015 | Blog
My initiation into the combat arts started all the way back in kindergarten. There, a boy named Paul who was bigger than any of the rest of us kids was bullying another child. This wasn’t the first time I had witnessed Paul doing this. He had been picking on one...
by Strength Through the Struggle | May 22, 2015 | Blog
I hate violence. One of the reasons I hate violence is because I grew up on the wrong end of it as a child. It leaves me feeling unsettled. Unfortunately there are times in our world when the only answer to violence being waged, the only way to make it stop, is for...
by Strength Through the Struggle | May 21, 2015 | Blog
AND LIFE GOES ON… I stood on the periphery and watched for a couple of minutes as life went on in front of me. Everybody was running around with kickballs, shooting hoops, playing on playground equipment and having fun in lots of different ways. Everyone that is,...
by Strength Through the Struggle | May 20, 2015 | Blog
Three times in the last eight days my son has told me either “I have disabilities” or “I have a disability”. All three times, those phrases spoken out loud by my son, left a pit in my stomach and questions in my mind. I’ve lived in fear of Josh (or anybody else for...
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