Chiron

Still getting pressure to create some kind of certification system.  I'm resistant to it for a number of reasons.  First, certificatio...

This is what I love about the writing life.  I'm sitting in a narghila lounge (hookah bar) in Montreal with coffee, orange shisha...an...

The VPPG Sunday went well and, as always, got me thinking. I'd hoped to have some time to sit and write and hammer stuff out, but life ...

What would complete self-defense entail? This is a partial, thinking-out-loud answer to an email I received a short time ago. I can divide ...

Long talk with Marc a couple of days ago. Wide ranging, as always. One of the subjects that came up was fear. There are lots of different...

I normally don't engage in conversations on planes. Small talk doesn't interest me. With very few exceptions if I talk about what ...

Every so often I get really tempted to create a complete alternative on-line persona. FB page, pictures, history, maybe a blog. Join a bun...

Someone sent me a link to a video. I don't want to hurt people's feelings, so I won't share it. It purports to be an examinati...

Watched my lovely wife invade another woman's space last night. It was in the meat section at the grocery store. A woman was looking a...

I like listening to Mike. He's old school, a hard-working man as well as a thinker. He sometimes puts words together in ways that reso...

Tired. Two days, a total of nineteen hours of classes. Introduction to Violence and Conflict Communications. Then today, a beautiful hike...

I may be going off into my own private language of non-standard usage, so bear with me. I see distinct differences between teaching, trainin...

I'm pleasantly tired. The group here in Granada Hills is the smallest seminar I've taught, ever. But we are having a blast. It...

It feels like I am living my life one level removed from reality right now. It's not true, just a feeling. The stuff I am dealing with...

For the record, the only time I've ever done a guest blog post was when Bill Giovannucci wrote something absolutely brilliant that was t...

The nature of life and modern ethics is that there is some stuff we can't, under normal circumstances, know. And it would be wrong to f...

It's not always possible, but when your focus is on teaching students, as opposed to teaching material, it's kind of imperative to k...

I want a grumpy waitress who is a little overweight with a bad dye job. She calls strangers "Hon" or "Sweetpea" when th...

Annaka asked a question: if you wanted to take a group of women, strictly from the self-defense perspective, from zero to where you wanted ...

The difference between love and infatuation can be distinguished (in this model, for my purposes, in this post) as how accurately you see. I...