1) MLW has been studying Muay Thai, and she loves loves loves it. (She's also getting ridiculously fit. I have to get cracking - I'm really not keeping up.) Friday night, we went to see some fights, two of which included people from her gym as competitors. One, Deb Liao, commanded her whole fight - really great, crisp form, positively seething with ( Read more... )

In spite of the abiding clusterfuck that is our traditional holiday modus operandi, MLW has hooked me up with a nifty present: on 1/8, I get to attend a class - "Intermediate Home Bartending" - taught by the Beverage Director and a founding Bartender of PDT, a nifty drinkery in the East Village which is like Fight Club in only one respect ( Read more... )

First, Big ups to MLW, who just got what I think is the best reference letter in the history of good reference letters, with regard to her teaching in the North South Bronx. One choice paragraph:

"...But a good course is nothing if the students are not engaged.  (MLW) knows this, and with the population in her school, getting the students engaged ( Read more... )