Chiron

No experienced instructor is right. No inexperienced instructor can know when they are wrong. As instructors, we are sure about many thin...

I separate knowledge and belief. There are things you don't know. There are things you can't know. There is a vanishingly small ...

I don't write about domestic violence, because I don't feel I know enough about it.  I know, I know, that doesn't seem to stop m...

I didn't get cut Thursday.  I've known for a couple of weeks now, since just before I left for Germany. The original injury was in...

For my thousand and first (1001) post, I'm going off tangent.  Religion and politics. Had an epiphany.   Want to share...

Home.  23 hours after my alarm beeped, after a wake-up and good-byes and a drive, train ride (with one missed connection) I was on my second...

News flash: Germans know how to make sausage.  Oh, and the Rhine is flooded. Busy week.  Lots of travel (flight to Germany plus travels wi...

And, since I am, might as well play a little catch-up. Coming up: May 31 1900-2100 I'll be doing a reading from " Violence: A Wr...

Had a fifteen minute conversation with Edwin.  Which always leaves me 1) wishing I had taken notes and 2) fairly certain that I didn't u...

This could be CofV 12.4, but it is really it's own thing and critical to everything.  Not just self-defense, but every last damn thing. ...

There might be one more in this series, might have to write about time and distance. What follows combines with everything before, but esp...

There are no experts here. To recap the last post and the comments on the last post- A “High level conversations” isn’t a ...

A friend started an on-line discussion about why it was so hard to have a “high-level” discussion about self-defense and mar...

Oakland has been a kick-- fun and rewarding.  Two more days before I can do a full After-Action Report.  Got to spend some time with Toby an...

Fevers can come from a lot of different things.  I was taught that sometimes it is simply the way your body kills viruses, or at least keeps...