Tai Chi Journal 5
09/30/19 — Beginning week 7 It seems that once again Tai Chi has managed to deceive me concerning what it is or isn’t doing to …
Stories and Essays
In which I share random articles designed to better acquaint you with my writing and my eccentricities.
Misterio y Transparencia
What follows is a poem using ekphrasis, written in Spanish. If you don’t read Spanish, there is a loose translation succeeding. Ekphrasis is a poetic …
The Shepherd and the Stray
A short story by Rayanne Robison. In a certain place where the hills are fertile and the sky is wide, there lives a shepherd. He …
Tai Chi Journal 4
09/23/19 — Starting into week 6 Today, I was rather ill. I’d had a bad allergic reaction the night before, resulting in hives all over …
Tai Chi Journal 3
Today we studied breathing exercises called “Qi gong”, which simply put are designed to “wake up the body”. We skipped over some, like teeth cleaning, …
Tai Chi Journal 2
09/02/2019 — Day 4 So far, the most surprising thing about Tai Chi is the kind of work out I’m getting from it. I spent …
Tai Chi Journal 1
Greetings, friends, I hope you’re having a wonderful week. I am taking a Tai Chi class and keeping a record of my experiences, so I’m …
The Japan Trip
If you’ve ever wondered what Japan is like, you can experience it vicariously through me. I kept copious notes on my experiences there. It was …
Unforgivable and Inevitable
Unbeknownst even to myself, I originally wanted to write a story about the wounds left by an imperfect childhood. But by the time I actually …
Adversity
The greatest adversity I have ever experienced happened when I was seventeen. My father had been out of work for two and a half years, …