Chiron

Thinking about next year. In many ways, the hardest part about this job is the shift work. In the last 15 years only twice have I been on ...

Last night I read a detailed description of an old civil trial concerning an officer-involved shooting. It wasn't an official report an...

Almost an epiphany today. It was like an epiphany because it was an insight that affects almost everything else, but it wasn't a new in...

I love teaching, obviously. The seminar format is the best- you walk onto the mat or into the room and you have to size up the audience. P...

Spent yesterday getting fourteen officers up to speed as instructors for the next round of Defensive Tactics instruction for our agency. The...

Years ago, I had a weird and thankless night. It was a combination of pulling off a difficult and dangerous operation immediately followed ...

Thinking today of an unexpected cup in an unexpected place. In the early nineties I was in the jungle of Ecuador in and near Coca for a medi...

"Did he fall or was he punched?" the nurse asked. The inmate was bleeding from two places on his face, lying on the wet tiles of ...

So much happened today, may small things with deep resonance- an experiment, a phone call, an attempted good deed. Friday classes with the F...

Yesterday was a very, very good day. In case you haven't figured it out, that means that today I am tired and sore and scraped or bruis...

My dad was a Korean-era vet. He told me that people could be seen as sheep, wolves or sheepdogs. (You'll find the same analogy in Gros...

Yesterday was a good day. I'm sore and stretched with rug burns on my elbows and a couple of separted ribs. Spent about an hour with J...

In the early eighties a guest lecturer for a criminology class gave insight and advice: "Life boils down to two questions," he sai...

I'm getting fat and lazy. It appears to be a side-effect of a life going too well. I love, like and respect my family. My wife of fift...

Been watching "Penn and Teller's Bullshit" on DVD. These guys are smart, incisive and brutally critical. Some of their argum...

Most people are not okay with success. Nearly all people have this idea of value and self-worth and are uncomfortable and afraid to reach b...

This is something I wrote awhile ago, but it leads into something I want to write about later. Consider it a preface: I've been giving ...

You meet a lot of 'masters' and 'grandmasters' and other bullshit if you stick around martial arts long enough. Most of the...

I use a matrix concept in the martial arts. Basically there are many, many kinds of conflict- war to dominance games to sudden assault to s...

I've been working on a book. It grew out of some lectures and a pamphlet on the difference between martial arts and violence. It is th...