On sharing gifts, paying forward, and examples.
I started this blog years ago because I was scouring the internet for women writing about Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and the cupboard looked a little bare. For a few days, I would search through the search engines, looking for just one tiny article by, about, for, women in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. The field always came up empty, and it occurred to me, well, time to put up or shut up Deb, why aren't YOU writing about it? Oh, yeah, I could write. So, having stumbled across Blogger a couple of times, I decided to use it as my vehicle for this writing. THEN I found them! The women! The women who write about Brazilian Jiu Jitsu! I think Valerie Worthington's "Prancing and Sucking" was one of the first, followed by Georgette's Jiu Jitsu blog, Allie the Clear Belt, Tangled Triangle, Jiu Jiu...there they were and for whatever reason I had not googled correctly, but I had found them and now I was going to settle in to this new micro-community. I wrote this ...