Uncle Sam as a Ninja. I almost turned the car around to srop traffic and use my camera. You think I’m kidding. Well, actually, he looked more like a terrorist hiding his face with a black scarf around it. At the expressway offramp on Union at Airport Plaza, some kid dressed up as Uncle Sam [...]

Chinese New Year started Sunday and on Saturday, I spent the afternoon at McKinley Mall. Red Dragon did Lion dancing and a parade through the mall. I ran point to help clear the crowd, and wore my finest — my red wedding outfit. They had a lot of demos in the central court area, and [...]

About a week ago, we had a Spring Day — but it wasn’t. Sure it was warm and sunny. But even if the sun wasn’t so low, there was abdolutely zero scent of Spring — the flowers, etc. Some people were estatic, but to Mer and I it was just a bit eerie. It’s like [...]

This had been weighing on me even now that it’s over. A couple of you know the situation, some don’t. But I am always about setting the record straight. Or at least trying to. Some people who know me feel that I handled leaving my teaching situation badly. I think they are right. If you [...]

I was over at Kris & Steve’s and we played Cranium, which was kinda cool (boys against girls, my team lost after making a big comeback from a slow start), and then we played DVD Name That Tune for the 80s. I can’t beleive I actually won, and Merry was at the starting line half [...]

I keep impulsively changing my mind. I decided NOT to teach Tai Chi and pass my students to another school. I think it’s for the best, but it’s a hard decision to make. It also takes away any ethical filemma about “stealing” (my) students from the place I teach. Now I have to break it [...]

I held my last Tai Chi class at Horison Martial Arts in West Seneca today. The good news? I have to option to have classes at a holistic center nearby on my own terms — class times, student fees, lots of flexibility. I can even stash my stuff there, such as T-shirts, videos, etc. and [...]