There is absolutely no doubt that this has been a most unique and challenging twelve months. Nobody could have predicted what 2020 was...

So, it is exactly 8 weeks and two days since I had my operation at the Priory hospital. It is 2:45am and try as I might, I cannot sleep....

I was quite simply lost for words this week when I read a post on Facebook that Sensei Bob Poynton had died suddenly. I was surprised at...

It is always an interesting experience, as one year draws to a close, to look back with fondness on a year in life achieved, and all that...

I watched a brilliant couple of documentaries about life and culture in Japan. One was called “The Art of Japanese Life” presented by Dr...

I had the chance to think long and hard about just how I should plan the lesson for what was to be the last Karate lesson held at what...

So here we are in January 2019, and I am delighted to say that Enso, like myself, has survived a year. Hard to think that just over a...

I was reflecting recently on the experience of taking black belt examinations that I have taken over the decades on my journey of study...

One of the things that I have started to realise as I get older, and my journey of learning continues with Shotokan Karate Do, is that as...

Watching someone that you care for suffer with dementia is a tough process. The thing is that even though you cannot see anything...