Victoria Rivas:  

Life I've come a long way from Erie, PA, lived in Germany, Georgia, Texas and even back in Erie for a year. After 15 years in Connecticut, I made my last move to Greeneville, TN. Otherwise, I study martial arts. I have a 2nd degree black belt in Tang Soo Do, another in Chung Do Kwon Tae Kwon Do (TKD), a red belt in World TKD federation TKD and a red belt in Kenpo. I now study Tang Soo Do in the Tang Soo Do Masters Alliance, and am on the Board of Directors for the organization. I also run a karate studio, East TN Tang Soo Do. I never meant to run one, but couldn't find anything I liked in the area and was encouraged to start my own by my math students. So in 2012, I did. And we're still going. And then there is poetry. I am a poetry addict, having spend many years in the CT Poetry scene performing there and in NYC. I've had many poems published and still keep my hand in, meeting with my writer's group in CT via Skype, writing and submitting. sometimes hitting. I have four grown children. Ian is a Navy vet and finally going back to college. Mackenzie is a mother and works from from home. She has given me my pride and joy my granddaughter Vivian. I am married to a wonderful man, Karl Etter. We got married on Sep 2, 2001. I helped him raise his two children, who both live in TN now, Sarah and Will. School When I think back to high school I would give anything to "do it over". Back then, my father told me that I was "book smart and life dumb". It took having my own children to realize just how right he was. And it's really only recently that I've come to realize the meaning of "youth is wasted on the young." I wanted so much to be "dateworthy" that I actually became exactly the opposite. Unfortunately, becaus...Expand for more