Currently Reading: Diary

Yesterday was Sunday, so I tried something a little different and did a long run in the morning – got lost trying to do the loop I did last time but exploring is fun – and...

Our apartment building has a ramp into the main parking area, a 40 foot stretch of concrete on all sides to walk through until your each the glass doors in the back, which require a key-card...

I came across a wonderful quote by the great inventor Thomas Edison a while back, “I’ve never failed,” he said, “I discovered ten thousand ways that don’t work.”  It’s inspirational because it advises persistence, that failing...

Dog Love – Thailand I love dogs.  Growing up we always had a dog in the family and when I went away for college I felt like a total mess of a human being due to...

A woman I know from the US wrote to me and asked me how one knows whether or not one’s gym situation is severely messed up. She then told me about a very alarmingly abusive power...

Sometimes it’s hard to love the things you love.  You don’t “choose” to love something, necessarily, but you do choose to believe in the love you have for it at times when you are not feeling...

Nong Jeen is trainer Neung’s six-year-old daughter.  She lives most of the time with Neung’s mother, probably due to school – it’s not unusual at all in Thailand for the rearing of children to be shared...

  I had lunch with Alicia Nowak yesterday, a young Polish woman who lives and trains Muay Thai in Vienna. We met through my Muay Thai Facebook page and I was surprised as we sat together...

  Here I am taking a break on my run to give a little Video share of what’s happening with my 54th fight coming up on Monday. The bugs are really making a racket. I’m up...

The Week After 50th Fight – Big and Better Fifty fights was a goal for me, but it was also a goal that I’ve intended to surpass for a while.  As the actual fight approached, the...