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Today I worked on website updates, including a new author and main page pic, new sidebar announcements, and new publication news. Enjoy!

My schedule as a newly, fully self-employed writer has been roughly that of a school day. Work from 8am-12noon on freelance writing and Lost Crossings related work. Sometimes this is business-y [...]

Redbeard says he’s falling in love with me and I say no, No. We cannot do this. Oh, the coin of love is so startlingly two-sided. I have never before been in this position, nor is it one I am [...]

Bear with me, please. I am breaking up with Redbeard and I received a shitty email from my former employer this afternoon. Also, the house was shown today. The potential buyer was my age and had [...]

(I promise I won’t always write about physical fitness and martial arts. I’m just on a “kick.”) Here goes my third round of self-designed training since I started late [...]

Standing at attention, Hanshi began with a quiz on the basics: What is the name of your style? What does each Japanese word mean in English? Then a fill-in-the-blank run down of all our major [...]

Been studying for my green belt test since dinnertime this evening. Time to call it quits…but not before posting these corrections to the self test I prepared earlier in the week. This is [...]

Ladies and Gentleman… {drums please} Shane Darwent and Katey Schultz are pleased to announce that a donation in the amount of $490 was received on this day, March 5, 2009, for the express [...]

I put together this test to help me prepare for Saturday. If you’re curious about martial arts and Shuri-Ryu in particular, you’ll enjoy this. Otherwise, you might just skim… 🙂 [...]

Let’s make something clear: I have sparred at the dojo less than half a dozen times. The first few times I did it, Hanshi was surprised at the ease of my performance. I was too…How did I learn [...]