Saturday morning, at 9 AM, I'll be signing a one year lease on a 330 square foot office space at the corner of Auburn and Winding Way. It's $395/month with a $395 deposit. I take posession on January 15, and am planning to open for business on the 22nd or so. Before that, I'll have to get licensure and liability insurance squared away, but this ( Read more... )

I now have seed money for the massage therapy restart. I will now have to acquire office space, renew all relevant licenses with the correct address, preferably within the county) acquire some odds and ends to furnish said space, arrange the various utilities, get the word out to everyone who will want to break down my door to get on my table, ( Read more... )

So I went back to Aikido tonight for the first time in six months. Yeah, it's been that kind of half year of sucky health, sucky finances and general suck. I probably shouldn't have gone back tonight; I was weak as a kitten and had/have the stamina of an aged dung beetle. My lungs are still on fire and disgorging copious amounts of goo. All my ( Read more... )

Some of you will have seen this story in other venues; I apologize for the repetitions. Too bad there isn't an easy way to write once, post many, with intelligent filtering ( Read more... )

I'm sure that there have been three billion pieces written about 9/11/2001 in the last day or two, but this one from Mother Jones is moving in a way that many of them will not be ( Read more... )

As is the way of such things, it began with a lot of small, seemingly unrelated things happening in suspicious clusters. Things like a friend telling me about this cool spiritual path that somebody called a spiritual martial art, meeting a group of amazing people who just plain believe in things I didn't and live as though they are of course true ( Read more... )

the Cherry Hill Seminary looks to match everything I'd want from divinity studies.  I hold the not uncontroversial view that the "pagan community" ought to be doing a lot more of this kind of thing, even if it has a whiff of things that terrify some of us ( Read more... )

And what is it that I have done? I have committed to attending Sacramento's Camp Courage session the weekend of July 11 and 12. For them as don't know and haven't clicked through, it's an outgrowth of the Courage Campaign, which is a progressive organization in California working for social justice. While I am not in full agreement with all ( Read more... )

This morning I sent out an Email to the four local Blind Field Services counselors and their supervisor, announcing the existence of Empower Me, my company for teaching. I expected to receive maybe an acknowledgment or an "OK, that's cool" from the counselors and nothing from the supervisor ( Read more... )

I went downtown with erisian_fields and the sprogs to see what could be done about getting started on the adaptive tech teaching and massage fronts. We started in rain, but by the time our first train arrived, the sun was pouring its benediction down, which I took for an omen of good fortune. And thus far, it seems that I may be justified in that thought ( Read more... )