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The year after graduation from Whitman College, I joined two AmeriCorps service crews. I spent my summer removing exotic invasive plants from a globally significant wetland in the Berkshire [...]

[I am doing a meditation retreat through Sunday evening.]

[Continued from yesterday] and the only thing I felt certain of now was that I didn’t know what was coming next. What came next, of course, were contact drills. But rather than full-on kumite, [...]

[Continued from yesterday] Now who knew what the next hour would bring… It didn’t bring stretching, studying, or snacking—that’s for sure. We moved right into review of all the one-steps I know [...]

When you assume, you make an a-s-s out of u and m-e. That was the slogan I learned sophomore year of high school in Driver’s Ed class. It’s also the slogan that rang in my ears as I left the dojo [...]

Nature never ceases to remind me who has the final say. After six days away from home, I loaded up my dad’s truck with empty boxes, my Thanksgiving luggage, groceries, and my computer. Not [...]

There is so much to be thankful for. We say it all the time and we mean it, we really do. As I spent a leisurely four days with my family, safe and sound and stuffed full of this year’s [...]

Tonight I defer to two excellent bloggers who hit the nail on the head with recent posts about things I had brewing in the back of my mind. I’ll let them speak for themselves: Cissy [...]

One week after selling Lady Blue, it’s easy to remember my first winter here on Fork Mountain—a winter filled with hiking groceries in, hiking trash out, and obsessively checking the springs to [...]

We’re lined up at the kamiza (spirit seat) at the end of karate class, about ready to bow off the mat. Hanshi remembers something suddenly, steps into the office, then returns to our line with [...]