It's been a whole handful of minutes. Moment of honesty - I didn't flip back through whatever the last post was on KataNerd, I just jumped into writing a new one while sitting at a bar and feeling like I should be doing something productive. Y'know, that feeling all of us get at bars. So …
Tag: Karate
Loud Environment:
Life is LOUD - but there are reasons.
Travel
Adventures and Sudden Realizations.
There WAS a plan
Sometimes plans have a way of taking on a life of their own. We just gotta hang on. Also, coffee.
And All of a Sudden…
It's July. Last year at this time we were limited to 8 people in the dojo, masks were everywhere and the tension was thick enough to cut with a knife. Last year I had just moved to Milwaukee and spent a fair amount of time bringing stuff to Ohio. Last year at about this time …
3 (New Scars).
I've done a lot of stupid stuff over the years and collected some interesting scars because of it. Here's just a few of them 🙂
6 (Years). 5 (Major Events). – pt. 1
This is one of those posts that I'm not sure I should even write. There's been a lot of those as of late. In fact, if you were to dive into the drafts of KataNerd you would find 30 ideas just sitting in digital limbo. Some of them just a title and then meaningless splashes …
New States, New Adventures, New Options, and Just a Whole ‘Lotta New!
Quarantine is lifted (for now), Lia is graduating Residency, I moved to Milwaukee, Lia is moving to Ohio, I seem to live my entire professional life on Zoom, the cat is getting skinnier and I was mentioned ever so briefly in Black Belt Magazine (Thank you Jackson Rudolph!) Also, I'm becoming something of an expert …
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This one thing I get STUCK on…
Ever since college, there's been this idea that I've just been STUCK on, and this is my 12,825th attempt to express it.
Planes, Trains, and Ubers. Oh, My!
A few weeks ago (already, where does the time go,) I was happily sitting in the Chicago airport, waiting patiently for my flights to get rolling, and for a great weekend in DC. I was heading to the U.S. Capitol Classics/China Open and I was PUMPED. I'd never been and I'd only ever heard great …