My journey to becoming a black belt is going great so far. I’m glad that I am ahead in the game with my push-ups and crunches, miles, acts of kindness, and I’m on track with my meditation. I do feel like I sti…

I sprained my knee about a month ago on January 19th. I am still recovering, but getting a little stronger every day. I went to the Monday morning class that Elan teaches. I really needed to get on the mat and see…

This week was difficult to train.  I had a terrible cold.  I had a throat that burned, non stop runny nose, headache, sneezing, coughing, and was very tired.  Thankfully I  was covid negative.  I taught my clas…

When I was coming up in karate the topic of emotions was not reguarly discussed. If it was it was in the context of anger. I heard the classical tale of the fisherman and the samurai. The moral is, if your anger…

Finished book number 2 this weekend. The Power Of One More by Ed Mylett. I liked the concept of this book. Always pushing for one more, one more call to a loved one, one more repetition of a kata, one more…