This week I made some food for Sensei Warren.  He is taking care of his wife full time.  He is a model example of what you do for the people you love when they need you the most.  I made some homemade blueberry mu…

This week I finished one of my black belt challenge goals.  I have reached 1,000 miles.  I cannot express how flabbergasted, excited, and happy I am in words.  When I first started the black belt challenge I di…

This is an excellent book to read for a general getting ready to go to war.  I am not a general who is leading an army to war.  There are however interesting concepts to use in sparring.  “In battle there are not…

I am reading The Five Rings Miyamoto Musashi Art Of Strategy.  We are also reading it as a group.  There are so many concepts in this book to learn from.  One of the concepts I can relate to.  “If you train dilig…

I have good news.  I participated in the kata tournament at the dojo.  I won 1 st place in my division.  There  were four of us total.  I also competed in weapons kata, but I did not place.  There were five of us…