Are You Ever Ready To …

Are You Ever Ready To …

My initiation into the combat arts started all the way back in kindergarten.  There, a boy named Paul who was bigger than any of the rest of us kids was bullying another child.  This wasn’t the first time I had witnessed Paul doing this.  He had been picking on one...
I Got This Dad

I Got This Dad

I hate violence.  One of the reasons I hate violence is because I grew up on the wrong end of it as a child.  It leaves me feeling unsettled.  Unfortunately there are times in our world when the only answer to violence being waged, the only way to make it stop, is for...
And Life Goes On

And Life Goes On

AND LIFE GOES ON… I stood on the periphery and watched for a couple of minutes as life went on in front of me.  Everybody was running around with kickballs, shooting hoops, playing on playground equipment and having fun in lots of different ways.  Everyone that is,...

Please Don’t Say That.

Three times in the last eight days my son has told me either “I have disabilities” or “I have a disability”. All three times, those phrases spoken out loud by my son, left a pit in my stomach and questions in my mind. I’ve lived in fear of Josh (or anybody else for...