If one more person starts a conversation with the words "challenging" or "interesting" times I'm likely to spontaneously combust. I get it. Life is changing and so are the rules. So this won't be an article that talks about the dreaded zoonotic disease that fills every website and email subject. Instead I want to talk … Continue reading Sysiphean times
Month: March 2020
It all just got real
I remember growing up in Dublin with grandparents who survived the war. In fact they had stories about how they went towards the war in some cases. Sought out ways to help and in some ways thrived in the madness. A few weeks ago I was still thinking that this virus would disappear before I … Continue reading It all just got real
Black Belt Blues
There was a figure that went around years ago that only 1 in every 10,000 people who started a martial art made it to black belt. It's certainly something my first instructor used to bang on about all the time. In fact, he would be at pains to point out that he had taught hundreds … Continue reading Black Belt Blues