Month: February 2018

Okinawa Okinawa is the birthplace of Karate. There are at several major styles of Karate that arose in Okinawan. The histories differ on whether the…

Okay, we’ve covered western fighting arts in the first two installments, and then we covered the history of Asian arts yesterday up to its introduction…

I’d like to recap some of what we learned yesterday. Unarmed fighting techniques fall into three categories – Atemi-Waza (percussive strikes and kicks), Nage-Waza (grappling/throwing),…

Recently, a discussion on a writer’s group I’m part of had a link to an article on fighting for writers. The article was somewhat misleading,…

A few years ago, someone gave my wife a Barnes & Nobles E Reader, the Nook. The nook was a good idea, but the problem…

I’m excited about spending the $34.99 on Evernote. If you haven’t, I recommend it. I was running into using up all of my bandwidth in…

I recently did some searching on the cost of using something better than Buffer to plan out my tweets. Twitter is great, but the average…

Every once in a while I read of an idea, and I just don’t get it. The Spark sheet was something I read about, and…

Writing composes several elements – dramatic, grammatical, structure and theme. Theme seems to be the often neglected part of the story in beginners, yet it’s…