Lineage
My son’s got Mike Tyson on the burner tonight. He only knows the champ from training videos and highlight reels and wants to watch a few early fights to see where it started.
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May 1, 2023
More Sara Lee Than Bruce Lee
I signed up for karate classes because I figured a little ‘wax on, wax off’ would be good for me.
November 1, 2022
The Cherub
He looked like a big muscular cherub, curly blond hair and pale blue eyes, arms like ship-ropes. He had no malice in him, though— just violence.
November 1, 2022
SHIFTING WEIGHT: Forty Years on the Dojo Floor
I haven’t often written of this thing inhabiting my body, its claws and feathers, its dragon breath pacing the circuit of my spine. It caught me when I was seventeen, though it had been stalking me since long before that. Each time it had neared, my mother had draped herself between us, and I never even got a good look at it. But when I…
April 28, 2022