10:03 AM Good Morning on the Dawn of a New Day!

It's Inauguration Day. We are witnessing a Beautiful and Historical day today. I am so glad to be able to watch it even though I am watching from my laptop at the office. I have two different feeds running side by side. The others in my office are running feeds as well at their desks. Never before have I been old enough to really honestly and Truely appreciate an Inauguration Day. And never before have I noticed so many others as engaged in the process as I am. Even just for that this is an historical day, I do believe!

Today, I wish for everyone blessings of peace, and hope, and happiness. No matter what our political affilliations, we are all in this together. We can only make our country better if we stand side by side and, in the wise words of my hero, Tim Gunn, "Make It Work."

8:15 PM Women and Self Defense

One of the blogs I watch here is Championing Ourselves Blog. You can see it's right there on my Blog List. It is a blog about physical feminisim, which is something that is rather a new idea to me. But in light of my recent fitness goals and also getting older and having an interest in being as strong on the outside as I am behind that curtain in my brain, I have rather enjoyed the entries on this blog.

Yesterday's entry was a really good one. It speaks of rape and self defence. It is a Great encouragement for any woman who has been reluctant to take self defense classes. We all need those. In fact, we all need to take classes regularly instead of once in our life as is the current trend.

Self-defense and aquaintance rape