Lately I’ve been very busy — and very excited! — with filling up my 2013 teaching calendar. So far, it looks as though I will be headed to Arkansas, Missouri, Texas, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, Colorado, Oklahoma, Virginia, Wyoming, and South Dakota. I’ll have those dates and locations up on the website within a week, so that’s good.

If you’re interested in bringing Cornered Cat to your area, please drop me an email. I’m pax@corneredcat.com.

Also, I’d like to hear your advice about something. I’m looking at changing the name of my core class. It’s been Cornered Cat: Concealed Carry for Women, which was good because it is intended for concealed carry people. Unfortunately, I’m getting a lot of confusion where people think I’m handing out state-required training for people to get their carry permits, and that’s not what I’m up to. Rather, I’m offering the next step after whatever state-required class concealed carry people have taken, and that’s a different thing entirely. So…

The new name for the same class will probably be Defensive Handgun for Women. Um, except for the co-ed classes, in which case it will just be Defensive Handgun. I’d rather have something more catchy and distinctive, but clarity matters most of all. Defensive Handgun hardly sounds original or brilliant, but it does at least accurately describe what we’re doing in this class. 

Would love to hear your thoughts about that. Does the name of a class matter to you? If so, in what ways does it matter? Are you more likely to take a class with a really catchy title? More likely to get friends to take such a class with you? I’m not really into the ninja-warrior-fantasy-tactical thing, but I do have to confess a certain level of attraction to classes with really badass names. What about you — what do you think?