Middle-Aged Martial Artist

I spent last weekend working out of town--at a meeting with editors from around the globe for my news organization. I missed my family, it w...

The New York Times online has a story about rising diagnoses of ACL injuries in kids . Doctors didn't used to think kids could get torn ...

I had a great class Friday night because I learned something crucial. It was my first sparring class since ACL surgery in which I wasn't...

Grappling takes some getting used to. It's great cross training from striking arts because it's such a different workout. But the bo...

I re-entered grappling and lived to blog about it! I went to my first grappling class today since November, 2006, when my ACL got destroyed ...

Here are a few more shots of Hawaii. The attractive woman holding up the palm tree is my wife of 25 years; the sea cliff is one of the south...

Our trip to Hawaii was great--very restorative, a real chance for my wife and me to reconnect. The photo above is taken at a black-sand beac...