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Getting Married is Like Having a Ring in Your Nose 1

Getting Married is Like Having a Ring in Your Nose

On this 25th anniversary of our wedding, I tell the tale that many of you have heard, and cemented everyone’s admiration for my lovely bride. She’s sneaky…and gorgeous. As skeptical as I was about...

Review of The King of Plagues by Jonathan Maberry at SFSignal 0

Review of The King of Plagues by Jonathan Maberry at SFSignal

My review of Jonathan Mayberry’s 3rd Joe Ledger book, The King of Plagues, has been posted on SFSignal.com. If you haven’t read the books, I strongly suggest reading them from the beginning; they are...

Marriage is like having a ring in your nose? 3

Marriage is like having a ring in your nose?

Many years (okay, decades) ago, marriages and weddings used to scare me too. Scare and intimidate, and I was loud and vociferous about my objections to them to hide those fears. Every wedding I...

Baguazhang: Theory and Applications by Master Liang, Shou-Yu and Dr.Yang, Jwing-Ming 3

Baguazhang: Theory and Applications by Master Liang, Shou-Yu and Dr.Yang, Jwing-Ming

There are four well known styles of so-called “internal” Chinese martial arts: Taichiquan, Xingyiquan, Baguazhang and Lin He Ba Fa. While I have only practiced Taichiquan from this group, this book on Baguazhang gives...