Writing is Cake

Writing is a lonely occupation. You fight the blank page into submission (or at least to a draw), sweat over the details, rewrite it a million times, then hand it off to someone else who says “It was nice.”  It’s one reason I’m such a fan of writing groups and other ways for writers to [...]

Herculean Fitness Eric M. Bahle June 28, 20008
“It is not about daily increase, but daily decrease. Hack away unessentials.”—Bruce Lee.
Health and fitness is not a hidden mystery. It has been corrupted and confused, corporate logoed and buzzworded, mystified and obfuscated. Gym is short for gymnasium. A Spartan hoplite trained daily in his gym. He trained [...]

It was still dark as we raced along the interstate outside Camp Verde. Some fresh snow had fallen during the night, and there were plenty of slick patches on the road—“black ice” as it is called—especially over the bridges and overpasses. We saw this as a good omen, because snow and ice are precisely what [...]