What are You Practicing?

What are You Practicing?

What are you practicing these days? Whether practice makes perfect (my first-grade teacher said so) or if practice simply makes better (my aikido sensei teaches this), it makes good sense to know what we’re practicing. In fact, as human beings we’re incapable of not...
Time to Listen Up

Time to Listen Up

It’s official. Life as we’ve known it is over, at least for the moment.   None of us could’ve prepared ourselves for how unsettling the novel coronavirus would be to our daily routines. Our old routines that once seemed drab and repetitive, now fill us with a sense of...
Get Your Grit On for 2020!

Get Your Grit On for 2020!

I tried out for the softball team in sixth grade and made it. I had an eye for pitching, but my hitting, well, it was lousy. I believed I was lousy.  After one practice that spring, where I hit absolutely nothing that came my way, I went home mumbling under my breath....