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This summer, some of the core students up at the craft school have asked me to read stories out loud to them every other Sunday evening after I finish my shift at the coffeehouse. Since it’s not [...]

If you can bear with me, I’m going to try and decipher my struggles with the past few weeks of karate class: In Chapter 9 of Kenji Tokitsu’s Ki and the Way of the Martial Arts, he discusses ki, [...]

Here is another example: In the past week I have been given two more magazine assignments and I said yes to both. I’ve negotiated with a regional organization regarding a grant-funded writing [...]

Here. Right now. Let this post be an example of me, choosing differently. There’s this thing I really want to write about ki in the martial arts based on chapter 9 of this book I’ve been reading. [...]

I write about having a “new view” a lot. But by this morning, lord if I hadn’t completey shed the skin of that fussy, angry woman who dominated my view last week. Tonight, Jeff and I stayed late [...]

On the eve of attempting more balance in my life between work and play, scheduling and not scheduling, I find myself wondering what has worked for folks out there in the past? What one piece of [...]

I read an essay last week that inspired me to think about what I would do if I suddenly learned I had two years left to live. Two things came immediately to mind: travel the world and learn to [...]

I wouldn’t call it bad kokuro, bad attitude. No—that’s note quite what I have. But there is indeed some level of resistance developing as I train and it’s starting to show up on the tatami. [...]

Hematoma, allright. This puppy rivals any bodily insult I ever procured during four years on the pitch. This baby’s measurable, historical, barbaric, down right obtrusive. We’re talking 25% of my [...]

I suppose I was slightly aggravated when I walked in the door. My mind had been racing all the way to the dojo, despite the fact that I tried singing along to my Buddhist “Songs of Realization” [...]