Chiron

This is going to be complex. One of the tenets of Conflict Communications is that people belong in groups.  We are all members of at least o...

Nanowrimo did not eat my life.  I'm sort of looking for an excuse, but I can't even say I've been busy.  I tend to blog more on ...

I’ve written before that martial arts can never be a way of life , not for me. Then I started working on the damn book of drills and may...

Asher writes (intermittently, lately) about teaching.  In a recent conversation, I asked him to do a series on how to learn, how to be a st...

One of my close friends is a writer, martial artist, and is exploring some aspects of teaching. After the con we were discussing, as we are...

Science Fiction cons, specifically. Cons are not, obviously, my natural environment. Raised mostly without a television. Don't read fi...

I was listening to a song today. It was a bit of a spoof, maybe but the music is good, the vocals are outstanding (Frankie Laine) and some ...

Bad Billy G, Bill Giovannucci sent an e-mail with something he'd considered as a reply to an old post. I think it stands alone. Bill te...

Maija wins the contest.  I am almost 20,000 words into a drill and exercise manual.  I hate it already, but that is just my normal reaction ...

This came up earlier. I don't know if the Johari window is still taught in introductory psych courses. It's a fairly simple concep...

I've looked for this story off an on for years.  It was right on the edge of the internet age, something I read in the local paper.  It ...

This is looking to be the quietest month in some time. I'll be at Orycon 32 at the DoubleTree Hotel in Portland, OR November 12-14, mos...

Steve posted on his blog and I got contacted, blah, blah, blah... Steve and I thought it would be good to use it as a jumping off point for ...

When I started in martial arts, there were lots of hints about mystical bullshit. When you got to your blackbelt level you would gain power...

NaNoWriMo, the National Novel Writing Month , begins in ten days. The challenge is to complete a book of at least 50,000 words in thirty da...

With immense thanks to Steve Perry, I uploaded my first e-book last night at Smashwords . It's the (much expanded) lessons from the Savv...

I'm going to write the post now and set it to show up tomorrow. I do have a lot to write about the East Coast, but the blog is for me a...

Pieces of what follows will be from memory, so please forgive if the quotes are not exact. RJ Nash, in "Condition Black" notes tha...

I'm tired. My voice is shot. It's been a long not-quite-three weeks. Basil Kemble came through with the venue like a champ and tur...

Once upon a time something very bad was (possibly) going to happen. I called home and asked for my gear bag. Ten minutes later, K drop...