Adventures and Sudden Realizations.

Adventures and Sudden Realizations.
Sometimes plans have a way of taking on a life of their own. We just gotta hang on. Also, coffee.
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 …
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 🙂
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 …
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 …
Continue reading New States, New Adventures, New Options, and Just a Whole ‘Lotta New!
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.
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 …
Last we saw the intrepid hero (me). I had just gotten back from Quebec (and here's the review!) and was a little razzed out from a phenomenal weekend with great people and a whole lot of martial arts. But wait, the fun didn't stop there. For the next two weeks all I did was drive …
Three weeks ago (I think) I was in the Toronto airport at something like 5 AM to catch a flight that I had been booted off of the night before due to too many people being on the plane. Not because I was misbehaving, or anything like that. But, during this groggy, somewhat hazy experience, …