I was teaching Jiu Jitsu recently. While teaching,I thought a lot about how my internal drives and motivation are sometimes used in the wrong way. We were going over the most iconic of moves in combative wrestling. The Rear Naked Choke. For the uninitiated, it’s the one where you are behind someone and …
I remember the first time I saw a dead body. Two of my friends were killed by a drunk driver and I had to identify them. It was a head on collision where both vehicles were going around seventy miles per hour. It took a long time of staring at their mangled corpses to figure …
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I’ve written about my son in the past. Maybe it’s because he’s a conflagration of love, pride and hope for the future. Maybe it’s because children are the bright and shiny embodiment of possibility in every parent’s eyes. Or, maybe it’s because he is the thing we really want to be. Children spend their little lives …
I tried to ride a ten speed off a skateboard ramp once. We had just moved into the crappy rental house on the street. It was kind of exciting because living in a house was not something we always got to do. I was ten years old, and the kids who lived on …
I’ve spent the past few weeks thinking about the source of confidence in more detail. I’m doing this project at work right now. Most people love it, some people hate it and a couple are mum on the matter entirely. It’s an interesting thing to go through all together. The opinions of others can have …
Growing up, I wasn’t very good at fighting. I didn’t do it often and if I did, I lost. I was a decent wrestler for a few years, but outside of a matted floor, I wasn’t much. I remember the first time I was bullied badly. There was this kid named Noel Something-or-other. He was …
