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Hanshi says he’s force-feeding me more than any student he’s ever had. This is largely a symptom of having a small, mixed-level class, combined with the fact that I have a high retention rate. [...]

It’s auction night up at the craft school, sixty-odd students plus staff, old timers, community members, and collectors gathered on humble metal folding chairs spread across a hardwood floor to [...]

You try not to love them because they always leave. And kissing, well, kissing always makes it even harder. Don’t mix, don’t mingle. Just make drinks, serve sweets, and high tail it back up the [...]

My. Thesis. Is. Done. …And my gallery date is coming up the mountain for dinner. What lovely auspiciousness!

For so long, it barely crossed my mind. In fact, the feeling I subconsciously nurtured was one of non-attachment. Live and love by your heart but do so moment to moment. Do not expect anything. I [...]

I couldn’t resist. The porch on my house extends almost 30 feet out over the edge of the mountain at about mid-tree height. If I reach off the edge, I can touch the softest, lime-green [...]

Everything about the blue belt is different. No longer do I pull my fists back to the trigger point after each punch—instead, I keep them up at my chest/face level for protection. In basic [...]

Here is my bibliography from my entire time in the MFA program. I have read all of these books except for six of them, which I will finish reading by the end of May-ish. This bibliography hasn’t [...]

It’s as I suspected. My core muscles and my inner thigh muscles are not strong enough and my higher level of physical activity (karate) it is exacerbating an already developing condition called [...]

It’s as I suspected. My core muscles and my inner thigh muscles are not strong enough and my higher level of physical activity (karate) it is exacerbating an already developing condition called [...]