An Evening With Billy Robinson |
Last night I got an opportunity to spend a little time with a living legend, Billy Robinson. It's hard for me to try to put into words what the experience was like really. I mean, it was one of thos...
Posted by on Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:53:00 GMT |
Home Security |
On two or three separate occasions I've been approached by "Home Security" companies who were trying to sell their products and services to me.At first I entertained the thought. I mean, after a...
Posted by on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:46:00 GMT |
I AM FREE!!! |
I am FREE.I am Free at last.Free from my ego. Free from one of my life long antagonists. Free from my fear of failure.Tonight I finally let it go. It felt so good. It's been developi...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:51:00 GMT |
Frost and Flowers, Fruits and Famine |
I suppose life is like a garden. Every day you must take care to nourish the fruit bearing plants and rid the bed of noxious weeds that would deprive the soil of valuable nutrients, sunlight and...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:36:00 GMT |
To My Fighters |
A Fighter's PathWe win, we loseWe Bleed, we bruiseWe learn, we growYou fight, you'll know
Posted by on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 22:39:00 GMT |
49th Day Memorial Service |
This past weekend, I had the opportunity to observe my Grandfather's 49th Day Memorial Service, which I learned is an abbreviated Buddhist rite which grew out of a tradition whereby family would origi...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:41:00 GMT |
422 Nisei and The Roots |
Recently, I observed my second Grandfather's (Takeo) passing. He, along with my other Grandfather (John), as well as my Grandmothers are the source of such great inspiration and admiration for m...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 08:36:00 GMT |
Parenting and the Jiu-Jitsu of Life |
Parenting is an unnatural act, everything in parenting is backwards. Sometimes the best way to do your job is to step back. But step back too far, you ain't parenting at all.Parenting is an unnatural ...
Posted by on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:23:00 GMT |
Running Down A Dream |
Sometimes I wonder if my life isn't somehow set to some private soundtrack.
"If there's magic in boxing, it's the magic of fighting battles beyond endurance, beyond cracked ribs, ruptured kidneys and ...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Apr 2006 21:45:00 GMT |
Bio-Technology, The Final Frontier |
Tonight, I was teaching my fighting group (we train No Holds Barred/Mixed Martial Arts and Muay Thai fighters) and to prefix the technical part of the class, I was going over some of the biological, p...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 21:54:00 GMT |
