As I was getting ready for aikido class, a line popped into my head: “Preparing for battle, the aged samurai binds his wounds.” I don’t...

In 1971 I moved out of a University of Texas dorm and into a house that I shared with friends. In those days in Austin, you could get a...

“The average person today is less mobile than a worm,” Mark Sensei declares in the middle of warmups. He makes this point while the...

My ski companion decided to take a break and have a beer. I left her sitting outside in the snow on a lawn chair in the broad area at the...